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The Umpqua, Oregon shootings: portrait of the killer as a young man

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imageHungry for information: the media, here covering the shooting in Oregon, falls into now-familiar patterns in covering mass shootings.Steve Dipaola/Reuters

All killers are Norman Bates – anti-social mama’s boys.

Or so the news media tell us in their instant profiles of the gunmen who shoot up schools, churches, military bases and other...

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