Sixth X-Ambush Report

 
The most important news story of Saturday-Sunday is that the American news media created at least 100 child-murderers with its insane and vulgar coverage of the return to America of the confessed murderer of a little girl.
 
There has been more news coverage of this obscene event than of all the homecomings of all the soldiers and Marines of the last 50 years combined, of all the cures of disease, of all the acts of greatness in our time, and it tells the warped minds watching TV in fantasy darkness and drooling pleasure, and it tells the lunatics in lunatic asylums, and it tells the monsters in cellblocks, that child-murder is the way to slobbering, fawning news coverage.
 
This coverage makes me ashamed to be a journalist and ever to have known a journalist.
 
This damned and petty pipsqueak is America's Barabas.  Unless a bigger story is breaking, I will tell you why tomorrow.