Is the Media Profession to Blame for the Quran-Burning Hype?

Is the media profession to blame for the controversy surrounding a preacher’s plan to burn Qurans in Florida? Orlando Sentinel‘s Mike Thomas thinks so.

“The Rev. Terry Jones was a sad-sack preacher, lucky to draw 50 people to his steel-shed house of prayer, when the words ‘burn’ and ‘Quran’ had an unfortunate collision in his limited brain,” wrote Thomas in his latest column.

He goes on to write, but once Jones decided to put the idea together “It was like the three strawberries coming into alignment on a million-dollar slot machine.

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