Am I the only one noticing that the general tenor is “Woooo Booooo Be Afraid”!
I just finished watching both the CBS & NBC evening coverage of the event, search, investigation, and background of the terrorists. While it had information it seemed to me that a lot of the reporting was designed to “instill fear”.
“They are scary lone wolves”, “There could be others like them any/everywhere”, “The Govt. knew about them, but lacked resources to keep track of them”, “The US has asked local & Federal law enforcement to increase vigilance”….. etc, etc, etc…
Maybe these days everything is a dog whistle to me, but it sure seems like if I read between the lines that what I’m hearing is:
Here’s an excuse to ratchet up militarization of the police,
Increase surveillance activity, cuz we don’t want one of these to slip by us,
Blame the evil we are fighting in the ME, and ignore the other issues,
Be Afraid! Your safety is at stake! Give over your rights some more, and ignore that man behind the curtain!
Maybe I’ve become so skeptical of everything that comes out of the MSM, and now simply see it as the propaganda wing of the Govt./Corporations, that I see a bogey man in everything they report. But, it sure felt like a lot of “uga-buga, be very afraid” to me.
As a side note, when the hell did the weather become a BIG news item for the national nightly broadcasts? The don’t have the bandwidth to report any “real” news, but suddenly the wx is a national thing every day?