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Spot on that man!
An excellent and overdue point.
Newswipe was brilliant.
I loved Gavin Esler’s squeal of outrage at the end. It couldn’t possibly be his fine trade that drove these men to kill. Unthinkable! Outrageous! Who does this forensic psychiatrist think he is. He doesn’t work in television: ergo he knows nothing.
It must be the competitive ping pong tournaments or the video games.
Copycat killers! I knew I’d written an article about this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/oct/04/copycatkillers
I believe this also applies to suicide bombers to be honest…
Note the typical ITN sensationalist headline “Carnage In The Classroom”. Why do we need that? What purpose does it serve? These people are professionals and we have to assume they deliberately come up with that sort of opening phrase in order to mimic a tabloid headline, but is it really appropriate to do that?