urder or fire in the warehouse to the latest hurricane.  (How often does a meeting of negotiators, or a city council or parliament lead the news?)  Their habits have guaranteed that the terrorists get all the coverage they hope for. 
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These media have in addition been busy in recent years scrambling reality and fantasy for entertainment purposes.  A watershed was the coverage of the car chase in which the Los Angeles police pursued the white Bronco carrying O.J. Simpson, fleeing arrest for the alle