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When a drunken fan runs onto a baseball field during a game, broadcasters always cut away to a shot of the crowd, or of the players milling around in the dugout. Contrast that with how the media reacts to mass shootings, like this week’s killings at the D.C. Naval Yard -- they devote days of relentless and sensational coverage teasing out every detail of the lives of the perpetrators. Source Main page (current trends)

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