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Problem being that you read it in the Washington Post, which is a great big shitbag newspaper.
Unfortunately, we will always do this. As anyone who spends considerable amounts of time with me knows, I was appalled at the reaction to Columbine - these "computer savvy" folks, with an interest in firearms, listened to (and I quote here), "Germans bands, such as Rammstein and KMFDM." They played DOOM. All of these things fit me. I personally wasn't treated wrongly because of it, but the fact that the media would even mention their musical preference, I found to be ridiculous. Would they have mentioned this:
"The killers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, were computer savvy and were both known for their frequent listening of Mariah Carey." ?
Of fucking course not. Rammstein and KMFDM, both of whom I do enjoy listening to, are German. And this is a big deal? This makes them killers? Of course not.
Sadly, we can't trust the mainstream media to be accurate and unbiased in their reporting - they are, after all, human beings, and therefore are flawed. You have to seek out the good news sources - Bill O'Reilly is one, and there are others. Unfortunately, the populace doesn't see this, and they tend to trust whatever they read in a newspaper. Newspapers operate to make money. They make money by having readers. To get readers, they need to get stories. And that is why some facts are fabricated or stretched or over-emphasized - to get readers. It's a sorry state of being, but that's the way it is.
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