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Article: Marilyn Manson.
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- New Internationalist
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- March 1, 2001
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Louise Gray on the rocker they blamed for killing kids
`Is adult entertainment killing our children,' asks an introductory question that flashes up on the website for rock group Marilyn Manson, `or is killing our children entertaining adults?' It is, perhaps, an apposite question, not least because few rock stars get blamed for killings that they didn't commit.
The killings were, of course, the 1999 massacre carried out by two disaffected teenagers at Columbine High School, Colorado. Twelve pupils died, their lives wasted in an idiotic act made more terrible -- if such a thing is possible -- by its utter meaninglessness. In the frantic need to make any ...