Word: aps
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...before three people were killed and 29 injured. "There's no question the money could never compensate for the loss of a loved one," said David Kaczynski, 47, who works as a social worker in an Albany NY youth shelter, in an interview with the AP...
Reading the AP wire is a constant lesson in human error. Whether Hsun Tze was right or not about the essential evil of human nature, certain individuals indisputably are innately evil. Like most fundamental optimists, however, I failed to realize just how many of these twisted people are out there...
...typical day, the Associated Press, America's lion of fast, accurate journalism, runs several stories this sickening on its wire. Reading them on an old Atex computer at my desk at work, where we get several AP wires, frequently makes me ill. The AP reports every major scandal, murder, theft, rape or other gruesome deed that makes the papers, and many too gory to hit newsprint cross the wire as well...
...believer in free will and the right of adults to choose their own paths in life, I have sympathy for a few of the offenders whose lurid stories I read on the AP wire. Juvenile delinquents are one thing. Reading the story of the teenagers who killed an unpopular classmate with a noose during a night of torture, I wondered what other factors had contributed to this crime committed by such young kids...
Sadly, the AP wire holds no lessons for the non-criminal, only a disgusting education in the telltale signs of child abuse that might save some child's life one day. As I scroll down the wire in fascinated horror, I wonder if any of these stories have a deeper meaning beyond the bestiality of some twisted souls. I don't think they...