But if there is no article there is no tiny thought in anyone’s mind. .
This article is from MyFox Orlando, did it get picked up anywhere else? I didn’t see it.
“If it bleeds it leads.” No blood no national news.
If this was an act of a terrorist it was pretty ineffective because it got mentioned in the news in only one metro area and because the device could not be identified as a bomb its impact there was negligible.
I don’t really buy your comment on anger either. True a certain part of the public would be angered by a terrorist blowing up children. But one lesson I have learned from 9-11 about the public’s anger against terrorist is that with out the press keeping that anger alive it is not sustained.
The national press made a conscious decision some time after the 9-11 attacks to play down the terrorist attack. With out the occasional reminder of the outrage of the unprovoked attacks on innocents in this country the public’s anger dissipated and the anger shifted to the countries leader a Republican President.
Perhaps things would be different now that the President is a Democrat. Perhaps the press would be more supportive of anti-terrorist activities but I don’t think so. The press is still hesitant to use the word terrorist. And the press still seems to be very anti-war.
No, in the long run only some of us remember. Many need to be reminded because they will post the event in their mind as 'done, over with, happened elsewhere, history'. While in the back of their mind, the anger is reserved for the public servants who work to ostensibly prevent the next incident in a reactive state.
It is a question of percieved threat which makes people either angry or concerned, I fully agree. Failure of the media to keep that perception alive permits it to fade, and even while we are engaged in a war with the enemies who perpetrated 9/11, the media permit its memory to fade.
That is as much an indictment of the media as the public, if not more so.
But while so many sat aboard hijacked airliners and placidly waited to be released in the past, 9/11 hammered into the American psyche that that just might not happen, and keeping/regaining control of the plane is essential if you want to stay alive.
So even at that base level it has caused a change in our resolve.
Unfortunately, beyond that there are many who easily forget, and just 10 years from now, those who cannot remember will be voting.