Influenced by this thread :http://www.e-budo.com/forum/showpost...61&postcount=1
There are certain issues that I like to raise regarding the media's use of "karate"
Why is it that everytime some newsbreaking headlining stories reported by the media often screams " KARATE teacher covicted" , "KARATE Teacher charge with Molestations", "KARATE instructor killed innocent bystanders", KARATE instructor did this" , "KARATE instructor did that"...etc
Then reading deeply into some of these stories, the majority that I find turns that the majority of these "KARATE" instructors actually trained in anything but "KARATE".
Second issue is the media just seems to love inserting "Karate" or "Martial Artist" when reporting news that has something to do with domestic violence, rapes and other felonious wrong doings. Why ? why can't they say something Black and Blue plumbing employee convicted of assaults !
Does the media see Karate as the hotbed for the caused of all these violences ?
Maybe I am a purist or maybe I'm the only one bothered by this, regardless, I still think that the media should try to do a bit research before assuming that every martial arts is "KARATE". My understanding is that Journalist supposed to report "Facts" not fiction or mis-informations.
Don't get me wrong, I don't plan to paint Karate as the Saint here. I am sure that we have our share of convicted felons who trained in traditional karate-do in our midst. It just seems to me that every convicted or alleged criminals are practioners of Karate !
Althought, I do plan to search for the old news archives and post them in this forum to support the issues that I raised. Hopefully, many of you can contribute to this thread.