Once again we are treated to "terror porn." Both the terrorists and the networks love it!

[Akamai]

As do Trump, the nationalists, and those looking for more military adventurism.

Who loses with the "terror porn" shown on our TV's continuously?

Everyone else.

[JayhawkSD]

1. They need to keep us distracted.

They need the "we are keeping you safe," to keep us from noticing that they are also keeping us poor, sick, hungry, disenfranchised and uninformed.

George Orwell described it in "1984" with the "War in EastAsia."

[Akamai]

5. Absolutely! Drumbeats of danger close down the thought processes of so many people.

[J_William_Ryan]

2. As we saw with the unwarranted, illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003,

and last year’s election, the press continues to fail to fulfill its First Amendment mandate, and is instead complicit in facilitating reckless, irresponsible governance.

[Akamai]

7. Absolutely utterly true! Like Les Moonves, head of CBS, who said, "We apologize for bringing you

trump, but we are making SO MUCH MONEY!"

So, the world is endangered, our country is being ravaged by trump and the vandals, and CBS is making SO MUCH MONEY!

Screw him and the horse he rode in on, and also all of the MSM outlets who have defaulted on their major duty -- bringing us important information

If they can't do it, then they sure as hell should say so and get the hell out of line.

[Coventina]

3. And, once again we are being told what we should or should not watch.

When the battlefield comes to places where we live, work, eat, shop, socialize, we are entitled to know about it.

As grown ups, we can decide how much we want to inform ourselves. This is a situation that is continuing to unfold, with the toll rising and arrests and investigations ongoing.

Don't bother to reply, because I am trashing this thread, so I won't see any reply you might make.

[Akamai]

8. Well -- I will respond anyway. We don't see the people injured by Trumps doing away with

health care -- and we should see that. We don't see the threats to people by his decision to allow the mentally incapable to buy handguns -- and we should. We are not shown the harm of his decisions to reduce spending to CDC -- and we should.

The klaxon of "terrorism" freezes rational thought, and that's exactly as trump and the terror porn providers want it.

The Israelis have it right on this -- when bad things happen, clean it up and don't make a bigger deal out of that.

[BigDemVoter]

4. Even the more liberal media outlets indulge in and wallow in 'terror porn.'

Ugh. . .

[Akamai]

9. You effing bet! If I could press a button and not see the terrorists winning their points, I

would press the button and let them slide into obscurity.

[brooklynite]

12. But you CAN press a button.....it's labeled "off".

[Akamai]

13. I sure as hell can expect the media to be responsible and not overreact. But they are not

responsible and are interested in making money, no matter what the situation, and no matter who is harmed.

Don't you agree?

[brooklynite]

6. Right. The BBC really should have been airing a Brexit economic symposium last night...

[Akamai]

10. So you want ISIS to have maximum impact on the political system? You want to play right into their

hands?

Osama Bin Ladin himself wrote about his desire to bankrupt America by involving them in wars in the mid-east - see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver

Our overreacting to these terrorist actions only embolden ISIS, etc., in the Middle East. We cannot kill our way to victory, and even Mattis says that.

[brooklynite]

11. Well, I don't want the media to make political decisions about how much news coverage is appropriate

If YOU think the coverage is over the top, you can change the channel or turn off your TV...and your smartphone...and your computer.

[Akamai]

14. You think that no media coverage is too much? Should we show legs blown of children to motivate us

to launch another unnecessary war?

do you think that the media can possibly have a culpability for bringing harm to others on the planet?

I wonder what your world view possibly is, or perhaps you are not thinking seriously, or....