On January 8th, 2011, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was the unsuspecting victim of an attempted homicide outside an Arizona supermarket; an attack in which nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally.
The mainstream media reported the story, and considerably more. Their apparent role these days is not merely to "report" events, but to establish disingenuous story lines that may be used as a narrative with which to shape public opinion.
