Turkeys: Early Show Focuses On Accused 8-Yr Old Killer's Thanksgiving Plans

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Drumstick or breast for accused daddy killer? Details at 11!

If that wasn't quite how the Early Show played it, it's not far off. Of all the angles to promote its coverage of the story of the eight-year old accused of killing his father, CBS highlighted the issue of . . . where the boy would celebrate Thanksgiving.

View video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Early Show inanity ping to Today show list.

[Red Badger]

Who are those people and what are they doing on my computer?............;^)

[MaryFromMichigan]

CBS disclosed that a judge had authorized the boy to spend Thanksgiving . . . with his mother.

Here's hoping his Mama is packin'.

[autumnraine]

This whole situation is horrible. Good grief, I can’t imagine an 8 year old killing two people.

[Carley]

If I may.......

I tutored eight year old twin boys. From K thru third grade.

Met them at their home after school, worked on homework, reading, arithmetic, etc.

One day a note came home with the boys that one of their classmates had died of an asthma attack.

I gingerly began asking them if they had heard anything about their friend Johnny. Not being the parent I was not going to go very far with the discussion.

One of the boys said to me that they had been told that the boy had died over the weekend.

The twin said that he was sure Johnny would be back to school in a few days.

These children had no real concept of death or it’s finality.

That conversation came to mind when I heard this boy’s interview with the woman police officer.

[6SJ7]

Those two coanchors on the program are almost lifelike. It’s amazing how good computer animation is nowadays. ;-)

[MaryFromMichigan]

I can't either.

"The boy later admitted to shooting the men at least twice each, reloading the gun at times."

Man, that's cold.
I can't imagine what that scene was like.

[yldstrk]

The two men may have been abusing him............

[johnny7]

Here's hoping his Mama is packin'.

LOL... he'll be lookin' for her as soon as he gets out of rehab.

[Chronically aghast in Florida]

The two men may have been abusing him

I thought the same thing. We don't know what those two men did or did not do to this boy. The media said the men were "roommate's". I would not be surprised if the boys actions are a result of some kind of dysfunction/perversion within the household.