Anatomy of a Failed Moral Panic

"Killer Agent Unmasked," screamed a headline in The Drudge Report. I do know, I do know, hardly anybody sane reads the Drudge Report anymore. However its headline and accompanying tales did stake out the let’s-see-if-we-can-spark-the-George-Floyd-reboot territory. So did a supremely irresponsible opinion column in The Chicago Tribune, which argued that "each final American" ought to agree that the capturing demise of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis a couple of days in the past was "an abomination."



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