Richard Jewell found dead in home
Olympic security guard suspected but cleared in bombing
There will be a lot of passive voice in the retrospective stories. Very few will face up to the cold fact that the government and media, working hand in glove, ruined an innocent man's life.
See here for more on the injustice done to Jewell.
The sad thing is that the media did not learn from this. The Duke lacrosse case is just a recent, high-profile example.
Jewell still suffers from their reckless action ten years ago. I think this blog got it exactly right:
Two people died; what would the death toll have been had Jewell not discovered the bomb or not moved the crowd away? Yet because of overreaction by the Feds and the national/local media, Jewell is still remembered as "that guy who didn't set the bomb" instead of "that guy who saved all those people from the bomb."
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