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They do some impressive mental gymnastics to conclude news consumers mimmick what they read, but what about copy-cat copy editors? Wouldn't that be a thing as well? Wouldn't newspaper men pick up on the big mass disaster everyone's excited about and say, "I guess we doing plane wrecks now."
The author's source data is news print; why doesn't he include news publishers' editorial decisions themselves as the source of this effect?
>And if it's Boeing I'm not going.

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