Posted on 09/17/2014 7:21:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Too late.
Terror is theater, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote on Monday. Burning skyscrapers, severed heads: The terrorist takes movie images of unbearable lightness and gives them weight enough to embed themselves in the psyche. Over the weekend, ISIS, the newest terror kid on the block, posted another one of its beheading videos to the Internet, marking the third hostage to die in the organizations effort to send chills down the spine of the Western World.
And, once again, it worked.
It works because the MSM is in the business to make MONEY. If it bleeds, it leads, Walter Cronkite is the source of that little statement by the way.
If you want to stop the theater then you do it by NOT giving them a stage. It’s as simple as that.
Yep.
While terrorism is real, govts’ alerting the population to “potential” terror threats whether color-coded or what not is simply to cover govts’ backside as to “we warned you as much” should a terrorist attack happen or not be prevented. Other than that what can the people do when they’re given such a broad & vague “terror alert”?!? It only leads to more unhealthy speculation.
I’m wondering what buffoon is writing this and I see it’s Bob Barr.
It’s sad. He had his day. Was great for FR once.
Something went wrong with him, or perhaps it was always there.
The biggest threat facing America is the scumbag traitor stinking up the white house and the corrupt cowards in congress. We wouldn’t be in such a mess if we had honorable and smart people representing us. Instead we have the lowest form of scum who represent nothing but lining their own pockets with the people’s money.
No kidding. Unbearable lightness. What the hell does that mean?
You can only defeat ISIS by defeating Islam.
I refuse to give audience to these beheading videos.
After a while people just get overloaded & fed up with this type of fear-mongering & it becomes precisely that, fear-mongering. If govts know, for example, an attack is “imminent”, presumably they also know where it’s coming from & have details. They should go deal with it, and/or tell the people what they should be specifically doing. Issuing vague statements only result in paranoia. Am not talking specifically about the US but other western countries too.
There is only one way to truly defeat ISIS. That would be for Putin to deliver 100 new tanks to Assad. Everything else ends with an Islamic State.
Maybe you should read the article including the links in it, before you criticize the author. You obviously don’t get it
And how do we accomplish that? The MSM is no longer in full control of what is seen by the American people.
And then there's that pesky 1A. Any media outlet that did as you want and refused to report these stories would lose market share to those who would, which means they wouldn't take that moral position for long. And we have no way to enforce such a policy across the board. Nor should we.
Do you remember that show? I barely do. I think it was on CBS on Saturday morning.
That was before Impy was born. :-P I don’t recall having watched it, since I usually watched the early Saturday morning NBC shows (starting with the Farm Report !). I did watch the other “superpowers” shows like Wonder Woman and The Bionic Woman. Harmless, cheesy fun, unlike so much of the other crap chin deep in PC writing.
“Harmless, cheesy fun, unlike so much of the other crap chin deep in PC writing.”
Amen. Another fun “thing” now long gone.
I’ve seen it a few times and it’s sister show “Shazam”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7TR4ixOkhM
(Which is clearly part of the fantasy life of a boy being molested by his “mentor”.)
Through the magic of syndication on either Channel 26 the U or Channel 23.
Do you remember that new Wonder Woman pilot that didn’t get picked up because it was supposedly so horrible?
I watched a video review of it
http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/wonder-woman-2011-review-part-1-6540116
Sounds pretty horrible.
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