Instead of getting angry with the media, responsible Pitbull owners should organize a march to the capitol walking all your docile Pits up the steps into the Governor's office......wait, that's impossible cause you'd have a bunch of wannabe Vicks and his boys would show up and start shooting dice and betting on who's dog would kick who's dog's ass....
I'm being sarcastic, sorta.
The breed has a terrible stigma. To be honest, most if very much warranted because the nimrods that constantly walk around with a Pit with an 80lb tow truck chain around their neck. That's really the problem here. Rappers and celebrities show off their "dogs", so suddenly you have every wannabe wanting to get one to be just like them. They don't care about the dog, they only care about the image it portrays. They think it makes THEM look tough and macho to be dragging around a dog with a big manly chain.
You like the breed? You want to do something to curb it's stigma? Then instead of getting mad at the media, get mad at the dumbasses walking down the street who have no clue nor business owning ANY animal, let alone one that has the ability to hurt people seriously. Get mad at that idiot that let's his 2-3 pits roam free without a fence. Get mad at the ones that tie up the poor animal to an Oak tree and never show them any affection and love. Fight for tougher penalties for cruelty and dog fighting. Fight to keep any Tom, Dick, and Harry from calling themselves a "dog breeder" of an animal that should have closely monitored bloodlines before you EVER decide to "breed" it because of it's perpensity to have certain inherent traits that are not companion worthy.
I'll get off my soapbox now. This situation would be much better if we really put the blame where it lies. Contrary to PC, there are bad dogs just as there are bad owners. If you go buy your dog from some guy wearing a wife beater, cigarrette hanging out of his mouth, and the dogs sitting in their own filth under a tarp somewhere.......you deserve whatever you get. It's called Supply and Demand.