Informed debate is hijacked by the angriest, noisiest voices, usually the victims of crime, and the media who howl on their behalf.
The outrage in response has filled the square with noisy, angry, determined protesters.
Another third album, Future of the Left's noisy, angry and hilariously funny The Plot Against Common Sense was the deserving winner of the Welsh Music Prize.
The previous Sunday, I joined a small church in Bekasi, a suburb of Jakarta, for a service, but found the street blocked by a noisy, angry mob and a few police.
The noisy, angry protests will continue throughout the month-long tournament, say those organisers I spoke to in Sao Paulo.
They show the noisy, angry, ugly parts of me.
They are quite simple cartoons and all little moral tales — "Mr. Noisy," "Mr. Angry," "Mr. Lazy".
They were noisy and angry in their denunciation, insisting that Vick, the fallen multimillion dollar quarterback, be punished for his role in illegal dogfighting and subsequent cruelty to animals.
About 400 people attended, and the meeting quickly grew noisy as angry parents shouted down the speakers, who included the school principal, the district superintendent and the chief of the Board of Education's office of school safety, Raymond Diaz.
Hope for the angry masses leading lives of noisy desperation.
