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moniss

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3. Do you really think
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 05:11 AM
Oct 2024

a crazed loner is going to have all these ties to so many places and people that have generated hundreds of subpoenas and a mountain of information to sort through? A loner by definition wouldn't have this large number of people in their life. That's part of my point about calling him a loner. The crazed part we also don't know about. People jumped on that like it was given gospel rather than simply saying "We don't know at this time very much about him." Which obviously was the truth and is now evident by this filing by the prosecutors. But once again the media feels in competition to rush to make immediate, declarative statements of fact when the actual truth is "They don't really know".

How many times have we seen it where media/people start ripping into "social media posts" by a person only to find out they had the wrong person who simply had the same name? These fools in the media feel it is absolute sin to say "I don't know at this time". Everybody has to rush to a meme and then hammer it.

My good heavens have people forgotten what this kind of "rush" by media did to Richard Jewell and how their inability to say "We don't know" rushed them into conduct that turned this man's life upside down?

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