You could say Ferguson Inc.'s big industries are gravy trains and bandwagons, because that's how it's been here.

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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Early Thursday morning in Ferguson, an unknown gunman shot two police officers.

They were released from the hospital later that morning.

Charles Cook noted in the National Review online that, quote, they were not

shot by Barack Obama. They were not shot by Eric Holder and they were not shot by the media or

the Democratic Party. Rather, he wrote, a man who is in possession of his own agency made a

terrible, disastrous decision.

And anyone who would try to lay blame elsewhere should know better.

Fox News predictably blamed Holder and Obama,

and especially last week's Justice Department report, that found endemic racism in the Ferguson Police and City Administration.

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