RT> Raymond Yates wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT>> I'm sitting here listening to the news,  and some wacko just went
 RT>> nuts (with guns) in a factory in Mississippi.  Why the heck is
 RT>> it,  when the news media refers to an incident of this type,
 RT>> that they always refer to the perp as "a gunman"?

 RT>> If he'd used a knife,  would they call him "a knifeman"?  How
 RT>> about other implements...?

 RY>> Media, being what it is, would call him "an unarmed
gunman"  not
 RY>> there's there's an agenda, or anything like that...

 RT> Of course.  And there's no bias there either...

Of course not! /Everyone/ knows /all/ Media is "Fair & Balanced !  {He said,
while loading up yet another commercial break for Fox...  }

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