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McLaurin, along with several students,expressed outrage at the school's portrayal innewspaper and television accounts. In addition topainting Rindge students as hardened and callous,McLaurin said the media is "enthralled by[knockout...
Logan added that a close friend of McHugh saidplaying knockout the night of the murder was alie--that the story behind the game was afabrication sensationalized by the media...
...What's fascinating [about knockout] is itsmere incomprehensibility," said media critic andWHDH talk show host Mark Jurkowitz. "If the mediahas misconceptions it's because this is one of theareas it's least adept at understanding--what'shappening on the streets with young people...
...Rindge] is not a school of violence...We alllook like a callous bunch of idiots," said Rindgejunior Nell Whiting, a neighbor of McHugh. Andpart of the misconception about her school, shesays, results from played-up accounts of knockout,a game she could never imagine her fellowstudents, not to mention her childhood friend,playing...
...whether McHugh, Velez or Donovan could orcould not do something like playing knockout ormurdering a 21-year-old students is something thatthe media is not focusing on, say angered Rindgestudents. Rather the focus is wrongly on howRindge students are players in the game, theyouths charge...