"Bob Ackley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:30300$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>> "Fox And Friends" claim because the Obama administration
 RS>> won't say "terrorist," (not true,) it's encouraging
 RS>> terrorism.

 BA> Actually, those who publicize terrorist acts are encouraging
 BA> terrorism. The purpose of those acts is to get as much publicity as
 BA> possible, and, of course, to frighten - or at least worry - people.

Exactly.

This Pakistani guy royally screwed it up.
He supposedly got bomb-making training in Pakistan.
From who? Larry, Moe, and Curley Ahmenajad?

 BA> If the media would ignore such acts those acts would eventually cease.

No dice. "If it bleeds, it leads."

 BA> For three days following the Columbine shootings, the Omaha World
 BA> Herald carried
 BA> big headlines and pictures of crying, bleeding teenagers on its front
 BA> page.  The fact
 BA> of the matter is that in the Omaha World Herald's circulation area -
 BA> effectively the
 BA> entire state of Nebraska - there might have been perhaps two dozen
 BA> people affected
 BA> by the event, to everybody else it wasn't even news - just
 BA> sensationalism.

That last word is what has destroyed TV news.
Sensationalism.
"Grab the headlines, get the ratings."
Even if they are reporting on nothing.

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