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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: 'I'd Take Them Out With Sex' By Jennifer L. Pozner It's hard to find a way to worsen the horror of the school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, but Howard Stern found it--just one day after the murders, on his April 21, 1999 radio show (syndicated by Infinity Broadcasting, a CBS subsidiary). While considering the motives of the male students who murdered 12 classmates and one teacher, the "shock jock" mused: "There were some really good-looking girls running out with their hands over their heads. Did those kids try to have sex with any of the good-looking girls? They didn't even do that? At least if you're going to kill yourself and kill all the kids, why wouldn't you have some sex? If I was going to kill some people, I'd take them out with sex." From the Rocky Mountain News (4/24/99), the first to report Stern's comments, to the Boston Globe (5/1/99), which eventually ran a column calling Stern "antisocial," a number of broadcast journalists, talk radio hosts and print reporters took notice of Stern's remarks. While some reporters rejected criticism of Stern as censorious, most took umbrage, labeling his comments "insensitive" and "upsetting." The Washington Post (4/28/99) found Stern's cracks "outrageous"; the Denver Post (4/27/99) considered his mockery "hurtful" and "out of bounds." Despite the hue and cry about Stern's lack of sensitivity to Littleton families, however, an extensive search of the Nexis database during this time period could find no member of the mainstream press who presented Stern's Columbine comments as what they were: advocacy of rape. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1470 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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