Thankfully, “the evening news is now probably a Neil Entwistle-free zone, at least until the accused killer’s next court appearance in March.”
Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara writes: “Not that those of us in the business of peddling voyeurism as news ever acknowledge as much. Between live shots of the darkened windows of police cruisers, we give the coverage the sheen of social commentary with psychobabble about the nature of family violence, the lure of Internet porn, and the isolation that might have befallen a debt-ridden Briton suddenly relocated to the colonies.
We have no idea what we are talking about, but that never stops us when the subject is murder and the victims are white suburbanites…” More…
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