Let me be explicit right now in this podcast.

There's some explicit language.

["Band Warms Up"]

It's Wednesday, April 4, 2018, from Slate.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Pasca.

Here's some of the things we know about the YouTube shooter.

She was, seems to be, mentally ill.

She was Iranian.

She might say Persian.

She was a she, a female, an animal rights activist.

She used a handgun.

Now some people, all right, let's not exaggerate.

Some few foolish folk on Twitter were saying,

oh, all of those points, how quickly will the media

bury it?

Their point is that the media only give rise when a shooter

is something like a right-wing nut job, which is not really

true.

I'm in the media.

We tend to go with the death toll

as the defining characteristic of what gets attention.

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