Dan

“Mercy Reed was famed for her instructing: “she ate the luminous material with a spatula to show the girls that it was ‘harmless,’”15 licking it right in front of them.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

“It was the categorization and presentation of these true events into themes with particular causes and effects that distorted reality. It would be like making Michael Jordan appear to be a bad basketball player by compiling a highlight reel that consists entirely of every missed shot in his career. The selective curation of anecdote is an essential mechanism of copaganda.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“fluctuations in news coverage of police-reported crimes are not determined primarily by police-reported crime rates. Instead, they are more responsive to political occurrences, campaigns, and agendas. Public safety “news” surges when someone wants police-reported crime to be news.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Later she told me, “The restraining order was the catalyst that pushed him over the edge. I hesitated a long time before I went forward to get it, but the company urged me on. Ultimately, I was told that my reluctance might be impacting my advancement at work. That was when I finally said, ‘Okay, it’s worth taking a chance.’ The shooting was the day before we were to appear in court with Farley to make the temporary restraining order permanent.” But Laura spent that day and many more in the hospital. Farley spent that day and many more in jail. Newspeople spent that day, and many more, reporting that Farley had “just snapped” and gone on a shooting spree. But that never, ever happens.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence