
How the News Connects to Mental Health, Conspiracy and Terrorism
(News We Should Lose 2020)
October 13, 2002, amidst the Washington DC sniper siege, I wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post entitled, “News We Should Lose.” A series of homicidal sneak attacks had struck down seemingly random targets, causing widespread anxiety and panic. A foreboding loomed around the region with anticipatory…