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Last June a lone gunman, Omar Mateen, attacked a gay nightclub in Florida and killed 49 people and wounded 58 others. Because it was a gay club the press immediately assumed it was a hate crime directed at gay people. The fact that his family immigrated from Afghanistan and he was a Muslim did not enter into their calculation. They had set a predetermined course to reach a predetermined conclusion and they arrived on time. It was only months later when after his wife's trial that all the facts came out. He randomly chose the night by searching the phone book and there was no evidence that he was a closet gay as was reported. As far as investigators could tell, Mateen had never been to Pulse before, whether as a patron or to case the nightclub. Even prosecutors acknowledged in their closing statement that Pulse was not his original target; it was the Disney Springs shopping and entertainment complex. They presented evidence demonstrating that Mateen chose Pulse randomly less than an hour before the attack. It is not clear he even knew it was a gay bar. A security guard recalled Mateen asking where all the women were, apparently in earnest, in the minutes before he began his slaughter. As the trial proceeded more evidence made it clear that he was a Islamic terrorist. There was compelling evidence of other motivations. Mateen had pledged allegiance to the self-described Islamic State during the shooting, and explicitly said that he was acting to avenge air strikes in the Middle East. “You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They are killing a lot of innocent people,” he told a crisis negotiator over the phone while at Pulse. “What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there. You get what I’m saying?” As the press approval ratings fall to 30% the public realizes that politics has distorted the news to the point where people must look to several different sources in an attempt to find out what really happened and even then they are not comfortable with the story.