Violence As Style
Comment about the bombing in Oklahoma City and about depictions of violence in the media. "Terror Strikes the Heartland," read one headline, echoing a note…
On Oklahoma City: "The practice of political terrorism has been refined in Europe and the Middle East, but its theory—the understanding that in an age of instant communications killing can be a kind of symbolic speech, a form of show business, engaged in for its publicity value—was pioneered by Americans."