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... but they did. Wasn't he praised for his "genius" for a while? He was called a "clock builder" etc by the media for a while, etc when clearly he just took apart some other clock and stuff it into a case.
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The only thing "genius" about him is the way he and his family manipulated everyone from the school, to the police, to the media, all the way to the president.
While it's true many people are quick to over react, there is not a whole lot of social inequalities when it comes to Americans compared to Canadians.
I agree the media fashioned this story into something it wasn't, and it quickly dissipated when the truth was finally revealed, but just because it happened here doesn't mean that other world media outlets didn't approach it in a very uneducated similar manner.