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11/13/09
11/13/09
Someone at the WaPo photo desk either has a short memory or a wicked sense of humor, putting a big photo of a kid with a needle in his arm in that paper.
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If they had gotten that shot for the heroin/kid story on "Jimmy's world" -- oh, wait, that wasn't real. Never mind. #media
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There is way too much speculation, minute fact gathering, and gotta' get something for the sake of getting it by all these papers on the Ft. Hood situation. Stop it, newspapers. Focus on what matters in your communities: jobs, schools, housing, public institutions and their successes and failures, local people making a difference, who's lining their pickets via the zoning board, who's stealing from the nursing homes, who's afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. The other stuff is what wires are for.
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11/09/09
I have no idea what's going on with this story because: (a) most news outlets have released information that has turned out to be utterly, painfully wrong, and (b) the rest (like Gawker) are pursuing a pro/anti-discrimination agenda.
By the time any truth is uncovered, you will all have lost interest...so as usual, the readers remain uninformed. #media
11/09/09
Local papers, and papers pretending to be national papers, please develop something of a local consciousness on your public instititions. This stuff can be handled by the tabs. #media
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11/09/09
As for "almost exclusively within that population"... is that a joke? I would ask if you were born yesterday, but even that is no excuse since literally the day after Fort Hood some other deranged creep shot up an Orlando office park for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with Islam. People snap. People commit violent acts. People are driven by religion to kill--be they Muslim fanatics targeting American soldiers or Christian extremists targeting doctors.
The intersection of weapons, religious fundamentalism and psychological stress is a legitimate cause for concern. It is not, however, legitimate grounds to scapegoat and stigmatize an entire religion--any religion. I don't give a fuck if feelings are hurt, I care if innocent people are demonized and civil liberties are violated. #media
11/09/09
"As great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well."
- General George Casey, Army chief of staff, on the Hasan massacre.
So really? Fuck off. #media
11/09/09
So yes, it is a legitimate concern that the Islamic faith is breeding this kind of behavior, and regardless of what the actual percentage of the whole it is, it's still more common than in any other single defining factor.
It does nobody any good to pretend otherwise. #media
11/06/09
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#kerik #media
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11/06/09
Sorry, but I don't agree with this sentiment. Certainly this event is a tragedy, but why should American massacres get any more play in the foreign press than similar events from any other country? I remember someone pointing out after the Virginia Tech shootings that the same number of people (or more) are killed on a regular basis in Iraq, and they don't get front-page coverage in the US. #media