
Matthew Shepard
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The Debunking of Aaron McKenny
Mike Downey: There's a sense where the media, mass media, and also just the public consensus if it emerges from a large population or somehow purports to be representative of the country is like this golem. He says we seem to believe that when a specific story alters, that it has to alter completely,. It can't just become slightly more nuanced. The victim becomes the villain. Right. So, Mike, before we get to the debunking, what did we know at the time about the killers? They were from Laramie; they're not monsters. No human being is a monster.
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