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...idea that listening to his lyrics contributed to the disintegration of Harris and Klebold. What the Columbine killers needed, Manson suggests, was for someone to listen to them. This is the narcissist's view of narcissism: everything would be fine if only he received more attention. The real problem can be found in the killer's mirror...
...enough. The problem isn't the supply of news. The problem is the demand for news. The news maw is expanding exponentially, and the news just can't keep up. It used to be almost a law of nature that a political story would expand to fill the media space available for its exposure. But that was before a couple of recent developments. One is the endless campaign. The day after every presidential election, the media take the pledge. They say, O.K., that's it. People deserve a break. Next time we are not going to let the presidential campaign...
...news is that in any recall "the public always assumes that the crisis is being mishandled, that the company is holding something from the public," Dezenhall says. "The reality is the company under siege may not know what's causing the problem." If it doesn't provide information, though, speculation and commentary fill...
...says, and underestimated how quickly Europe's simmering anti-Americanism would snowball into a p.r. disaster. "When outrage takes over, there is no emotion more powerful than the urge to place blame," Dezenhall says. "Coke found itself the beneficiary of an entire continent's wrath for a nonlethal problem...
...That last feeling can be the real problem. Where there's marginalization, there's a profound sense of powerlessness, and powerless people tend to hit back. More worryingly, it doesn't take grave abuses like molestation to leave people feeling so minimized. Parental or spousal indifference or dismissal - or at least the belief that it exists - can have a similar effect. If the world outside the home seems to be conspiring in the mistreatment, the sense of invalidation grows worse still. It may be true that none of us suffer a lost job, a busted romance or a failed exam...