The arc of the media hero

I’d love to be able to say “I hate to say ‘I told you so,'” but I actually like to say “I told you so.”

Told you so.

The media “schedule” for treating heroes is entirely predictable. First: Create them. Second: Destroy them.

Step one was pretty easy where Charles Ramsey was concerned. He did all the work, rescuing the girls from the Cleveland home where they’d been held since being kidnapped.

It wasn’t hard to see what was coming next.

It happened this afternoon:

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Why don’t more people get involved like Charles Ramsey did? That’s why.