By Bob Harris BACK ON JULY 25TH, while that whole Andrew Cunanan deal was happening, the L.A. Times wrote an editorial condemning the major media coverage of the case. TV may be overexposing us. . . . Commentators filled the airtime with wild speculation about how a gay party animal turned into a suspected serial murderer. . . .
Violence is news.
The very day this L.A. Times editorial was published, the front page of the exact same issue was headlined by . . . Well, at least somebody at the Times wanted to stay above the gutter. Maybe the folks over there writing editorials criticizing the TV coverage might take a minute and actually read their own paper. Now that the whole Andrew Cunanan deal is over, something still bugs me about the way everyone discussed the case. Yes, Cunanan was gay, and yes, he was a serial killer.