How We Talk About New Crimes and New Victims, had the sense to check out the stalking situation and found it to be wildly overblown. The news media, in Best's analysis, is perpetually in need of new, attention-grabbing stories, a new crime wave or menace. Frenzy and melodrama are the very stuff of life for reporters and editors. They sell newspapers and magazines, drive TV ratings higher and alarm the public. Side 2 - Pandering politicians .
Bureaucrats churn out reports like beavers building a dam.
Side 4 - Activists in search of a new agenda . Activists and professional advocates make themselves available to the new marketplace of victims. This iron quadrangle has already taken real-life hostage. Richard Thieme Well said and well taken. Then subscribe to the IAW E-Mail Alert.