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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs it true to say that the terror warning has caused critics of surveillance to "back off"?
That's what my local NBC affiliate news anchor said on the 6 o'clock news today.
She reported on the continued closure of embassies. And continued by saying that the terror warning has caused critics of the surveillance state to "back off."
She was quite dramatic throughout the whole story.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)I see no signs of it.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)for bullsh!t
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Limbo or someone. I don't know what the goons are saying today.
dkf
(37,305 posts)AppleBottom
(201 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)who were preparing bills to curtail the excesses of the NSA.
I'm sure they are receiving phone calls suggesting that they might not want to be seen as pro-terrorists should something happen.
Prolonging these 'closings' for a month or more should keep the fear going (for Members of Congress) until they return with their bills.
delrem
(9,688 posts)They rarely have a critical bone in their bodies.
They are hired for the personas that they've learned to project -- and if they presume to use thought, they are fired.
That's the nature of the market in the MSM.
I think it's better *not* to listen to "the 6 o'clock news on MSM".
Especially so if the listener doesn't already know that the stream of BS is designed to supplement, to nurture, the more hardened pile it lands on.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)You don't watch your local news? For the weather report, and for local issues?
I do. But not for national news.
How do you keep tabs on what the MSM is telling your neighbors if you don't watch? We all are affected by the community conversation, whether we want to be or not. When we shut ourselves away from the conversation, we skew the audience toward the right. And it keeps skewing and skewing and skewing until there are no moderate or liberal voices represented.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)I'll back off when they dismantle the entire warrantless domestic spying bullshit.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)how we are allowed to think, and I simply refuse to comply.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.'s data-collection programs, and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/world/middleeast/qaeda-messages-prompt-us-terror-warning.html
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)There was a lot of "SEE? the NSA is NEEDED! We can't do without it! We must protect it!" on CNN over the weekend.