Topic: News Trends

Pepper Spray Is the New Shark Attack

AP

The national pick-up of the story of a 14-year-old high school student pepper-spraying her Harlem classmates seems to be following the same pattern as the media fascinations with turning other horrible though random events into a trend.

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