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The media always makes things look bigger than reality.
When I was in high school back in the 70's we had a fight in the lunch room where a black girl and a white girl got into a dish throwing fight in the lunch line. No one got hurt but it kind of turned into a food fight and the police were called in.
The next day the newspapers reported that there was a major racial riot at our school between the white and black students. Then after that story TV news vans show up the next day asking students all about the big riots.
It was totally blown out of proportion and then the incident and story took on a life of its own.
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