http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14256712
It is a tragedy.
Yet there are questions to be raised regarding the media coverage of this despicable act. Immediately, the "talking heads" were blaming al qaeda, pointing out similarities in the modus operandi to other events, and pontificating on the distorted reasoning and justification for Norway being a target of Islamic terrorism. From the start, the meme of the sub-human "them" was let loose.
And then... the gunman was arrested, and his description released:
Not al qaeda it seems...Norwegian media reports said the shootings on the island, on the Tyrifjorden lake, were carried out by a man in police uniform.
Police later said that he was also linked with the bomb attack. Reports described him as tall and blond.
I wonder, will there now be a raft of racial stereotyping with blond men as existential threats? Somehow, I doubt it...