A Washington Post article online concerning one of the latest shootings in the US outlined the different lives the shooter, Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, led. As with many articles online, advertisements were sprinkled throughout, among them this one concerning wine. What is interesting is that the advertisement comments nicely on what the article at that point was highlighting in the writings of Mr. Abdulazeez.
I question the mechanical insertion of advertisements into "content," always, but that is perhaps a minority view. As this one, however, makes clear, Mr. Abdulazeez's interests are eerily underlined and give pause to the wisdom of scrambling content with Mammon's messages.
Isn't that what these intrusions and diversions are? Down with the silly and time-wasting insertions . . . they even lead to posts like this one, where the diversion is the subject, not what the article says, much less what the article might mean.
Oh, the title and authors in case someone might want to delve. Chattanooga shooter's real, online lives seem to take divergent paths, by Greg Jaffe, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Adam Goldman, July 17, 2015.
