“The funny thing,” said my mother, “was that bicycle thefts were no greater that week than the week before, or the week before that, or the week after.

There was no crime wave.”
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The media caters to Americans - and you people are easy to control via media. They get you people all lathered up and now they can do it 247.

Your example - thanks for sharing - is a perfect one.

Equivalent to "shark attack" reporting in the media now. Hot and cold depending on what they feel like doing. Many other examples.

Difference is now *anyone* is the media - and now they cater to tribes and people who are products of bad culture. So they can get Trump shot,, and get someone to reach for his gun cause Hillary has a pedi-festival going on in the basement of a pizzeria.