James Lee, a 43-year-old man with a long history of grudges against Discovery’s networks and their programming, was shot and killed by police yesterday after he entered Discovery Communications headquarters with a gun and explosives and took hostages. None of the hostages were harmed.
Lee left behind a manifesto that collected a grab-bag of screeds and rants. But they were unified by one familiar theme: the exaggerated belief in a media institution’s ability to single-handedly create, and impose solutions upon, social problems.
