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October 5, 2012 12:14 am GMT

Does Anchors Anti-Bullying Message Redefine Bully?


In the days following the Wisconsin TV anchor's on-air segment calling out her bully, support for anchor Jennifer Livingston has been pouring out on Facebook.

Her anti-bullying message comes at a perfect time -- October is National Bullying Prevention Month and recent events like this one have spotlighted the issues of hurtful comments that take place online.

Dennis Shaw, chief operation officer of i-SAFE, the leading publisher of online safety curriculum for grades pre-K-12, tells Mashable social media has shown to both help and hurt victims of cyberbullying. But what happened to the anchorwoman wasn't by definition bullying, he says.

"I don't think that the man who wrote the…
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