[Calpernia]

Your point is not without truth; however, I would hold the media a little more responsible than the average citizen. If the average citizen was more informed, they would be able to make judgements and thoughts based on reality.

[swarthyguy]

Raises the question, why is the world's most powerful well funded media apparatus so woefully incompetent and hiding behind the "its what the people want" when they abdicate their mission to inform?

The media reflect the citizenry, perhaps.

Look at the posts of many people here; talking about jihadis and the hate and the bombings makes one a skunk at a garden party.

People don't want to know.

Certainly a vicious "cycle of ignorance".

[freeperfromnj]

FYI

NJ TRAVELERS, RAILROADS WARY AFTER SPAIN TRAIN ATTACKS

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Bomb-sniffing dogs patrolled rail station concourses and trains in New Jersey, and police stepped up patrols in and around commuter stops Friday in the aftermath of the deadly train bombings in Spain that killed nearly 200 people a day earlier.

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1079110753156340.xml

[Letitring]

Amen. I don't know how many times I've told people certain things, only to have them say, "I didn't hear that on the news." Groan.