Why The Media Should Really Stop Giving Mass Murderers Their Own Theme Music

In 2003, Roger Ebert recalled an interview he gave to Tom Brokaw’s news program the day following the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colo. Given the media coverage of numerous mass shootings since then, his words are especially poignant today.

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Mansur Gidfar

Dec 18, 2012

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