The hyenas’ meal

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A man kills a woman by hitting her with a chair. The homicide is committed in the villa where the woman lived with her husband and 7 year old daughter, both of whom were not at home. The assassin is tracked down immediately. In 2009 he hit his former fiancée and put a knife to her throat and for this he is currently on trial. Unemployed, he was welcomed into a Jesuit institution providing services for elderly and disabled people where he worked as a janitor. Marianna devoted herself to social activities and her conduct was always beyond reproach. She went often to the parish centre and the Jesuit institution and was very religious. When interrogated by the Carabinieri, the assassin said she had been his lover for five months and that he killed her because she wanted to leave him. The word of a miserable wretch was immediately spread throughout the press as though it were true. Marianna, (the name of the woman concerned) had basically been asking for it. Who made known the declarations of the brutal murderer? Why was it possible to do that? The newspapers exploded into a frenzy like hyenas excited by the smell of blood about the presumed love affair. "MADRE MASSACRATA A SAMARATE - L'AMANTE L'HA UCCISA CON UNA SEDIA", {mother massacred at Samarate – lover kills her with a chair} Provincia di Varese. "VARESOTTO: MASSACRATA DALL'AMANTE CHE VOLEVA LASCIARE", {near Varese: massacred by the lover she wanted to leave} Agi. "Omicidio di Samarate, tra l'assassino e la vittima c'era una relazione" {Samarate homicide, there was a relationship between the assassin and the victim}, Nanopress. "Ad uccidere Marianna il suo amante Domenico Cascino {It was her lover, Domenico Cascino that killed Marianna}", Usignolo News."VARESE IL KILLER DI MARIANNA NON SI RASSEGNAVA ALLA FINE DELLA RELAZIONE"{In Varese, Marianna’s killer didn’t accept the end of the relationship} embroidered with "But a relationship had developed between the two. There were often in romantic places. They went walking along the Ticino and a number of times he went to Marianna’s house.", Corriere della Sera. "Choc nel Varesotto. Massacrata dall’amante che voleva lasciare" {Shock in the area of Varese. Killed by the lover that she wanted to leave}, Il Giornale.
Two days later, the first doubts come out. Friends of the woman "just calumny about her", a criminologist explained that the relationship was just a fantasy and Father Alfredo Imperatori, the founder of Iris Televita, where Marianna had been working for more than ten years, said that there was no evidence of a relationship apart from friendship and he is asking the killer to speak the truth. What’s true is the murder of a woman before and after her death.

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Media loves "monsters." Nothing spike sales like a front-page monster. Especially when aberrant sexual acts are allegedly to have taken place, as in Avetrana, or the alleged murder of lover on lover as in the story above. In such cases journalistic accuracy can even be silently neglected, lest the murder lose the sensationalistic effect.

Last year, reported the Associated Press, humankind released in the blue yonder 564 million more global warming gases than in 2009. More than any other year since the start of the Industrial Revolution. So, what else is new? might a news editor ask. Right! Everybody knows the harm this will cause to our children's children, or as a matter of fact, the damage those gases are doing to the weather patterns, generating mega tornadoes, melting the glaciers and other consequences. Every Tom, Dick and Harry knows that we're polluting the universe and that makes it old news. And that's the reason you probably have not seen a stitch of a story or heard a newscaster mention it anywhere. At least I haven't, till I read it on Tomdispatch's blog. Editors will take violence and sex over humanity's perils any day of the week.

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