Photos: Big Animals Are Large and In Charge

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  Posted By: nmontasser @ 06/10/2008 5:00:09 AM

  why would Newsweek promote hunting boars by putting the pic of an 11 year old (??????) with a shot boar. What on earth are they trying to teach us here?? This is freaking disturbing

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  Posted By: secretsign @ 05/07/2008 12:26:00 PM

  The owner of Lost Creek Plantation-- the canned hunting operation-- Eddy Borden, along with owners of Southeastern Trophy Hunters Keith O???Neil and Charles Williams, modeled their marketing scheme after the enormously successful Hogzilla shooting in Georgia that National Geographic turned into a 2005 record-breaking documentary. Their flimflam plan was to buy a dark hairy fat farm hog, and sell it to a greenhorn as a ???once in a lifetime??? opportunity. The advertisement promised that a 1,000 pound monster boar was ???roaming the wilds??? of the Lineville plantation even before they picked Fred up from the farm.
  
  To save face, Mike Stone, Jamison???s father, continued to tell a heroic tale about what happened on May 3, 2007. However, the ugly bottom line still showed --and the public noticed. Mike Stone said that for three hours, Jamison repeatedly wounded the hog with no kill shot. Stone told me that a local TV station said to the hunters that "if they wanted a news story, only the boy could shoot the pig-- no adults." So the three professional hunters, Borden, Williams and O???Neil, armed with rifles, stood by for hours and watched as the hog eventually bled out in order to, ultimately, promote their hunting business.
  THAT'S the story! Check out stingyjournalism.org Jeesh Newsweek

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  Posted By: secretsign @ 05/07/2008 12:25:52 PM

  The owner of Lost Creek Plantation-- the canned hunting operation-- Eddy Borden, along with owners of Southeastern Trophy Hunters Keith O???Neil and Charles Williams, modeled their marketing scheme after the enormously successful Hogzilla shooting in Georgia that National Geographic turned into a 2005 record-breaking documentary. Their flimflam plan was to buy a dark hairy fat farm hog, and sell it to a greenhorn as a ???once in a lifetime??? opportunity. The advertisement promised that a 1,000 pound monster boar was ???roaming the wilds??? of the Lineville plantation even before they picked Fred up from the farm.
  
  To save face, Mike Stone, Jamison???s father, continued to tell a heroic tale about what happened on May 3, 2007. However, the ugly bottom line still showed --and the public noticed. Mike Stone said that for three hours, Jamison repeatedly wounded the hog with no kill shot. Stone told me that a local TV station said to the hunters that "if they wanted a news story, only the boy could shoot the pig-- no adults." So the three professional hunters, Borden, Williams and O???Neil, armed with rifles, stood by for hours and watched as the hog eventually bled out in order to, ultimately, promote their hunting business.
  THAT'S the story! Check out stingyjournalism.org Jeesh Newsweek