At this point in American history, we're all pretty well accustomed to lone nut gunmen (and to some extent, lone nut gunmen with buddies): Charles Whitman, Kip Kinkel, Harris/Klebold, Charles Unruh, "Big Jim" Huberty and others have seen to that. And every time one of them cuts loose in a school or a cafeteria or a factory or a post office or an office complex, the news reports sound sickeningly the same: the crimes and their perpetrators have come to seem so much "of a type" as to seem scripted.
Which is perfectly convenient for the parasites in the broadcast and print media: The stories practically write themselves! And overnight ratings and newsstand sales both soar through the roof! Ah, the profits to be made from blood-drenched human tragedy. ("BLOODBATH!" screams the headline on today's Detroit "News," which makes itself look even more pathetic than its usual norm by desperately seeking out a "survivor" of the attack with Michigan roots to interview. They manage to find one: A woman who happened to be in the basement of a different building. Nothing like going for the relevant eyewitness account, eh...?).
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