I wouldn't call it "predetermined". After a long time period of steady and consistant results I would call it "reliable".
I, too, was completely taken aback by the identity of the reporting agency when I read it. Let us not pretent that NPR is some totally just non-slanted news group. I maybe hard, but I don't give "atta boys" for the single time they didn't behave like a propaganda mouth piece.
Bending and breaking the truth is fine. Just don't be angry when I do it to you, right? It's alright to lie under oath as long as that is my version of it?
Nope. Lies are lies. Humans are imperfect, but I completely reject the notion that it is fine to lie to certain humans to manipulate them into an action. Else why is it wrong to lie to an emergency operator?
Hitler did that, Mulas are doing it now. It is not their "version" of truth that is the problem, it is their lying.
(And now I know not to trust what Steve says.
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Having thirty year old gang bangers kill themselves on a street in front of a school at night is not a school shooting. That is a lie. Not a version of truth.
Hopefully this was not some random act of juornalism and they keep looking for the real story.
I won't hold my breath...