7/26/2005 06:11:00 PM|||Sarah|||

I'm sure many of you have now heard about the homeless man in Antioch who has confessed to killing two other homeless people.

I was intrigued by the different ways that two radio stations chose to share news of the crime. WLAC, 1510AM, reported that the man admitted to "being addicted to sucking the souls out of people after he killed them". A correspondent on NPR instead chose to say the man admitted to "being addicted to killing people". This was after she stumbled over the text and appeared to change the words provided to her. Subtle difference, perhaps, but I think it's telling. The alleged murderer said that his addiction came from the actual sucking of souls (I assume this is a figurative term, because I have difficulty imagining an actual sucking process) that was done after the victim was already dead. Does the woman on NPR not want to admit that we have souls? Why did she incorrectly limit the evil to the physical killing of a body?

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