[Dilbert San Diego]

Speaking of Orlando, I am saddened that the focus has all been about gun control.

Orlando is the deadliest terrorist attack in America since 9/11, and resembles the terrorist attacks which happened in Paris and Brussels. Yet the media are virtually ignoring the fact that this was a terrorist attack.

[karnage]

This is Obama’s true genius, aided and abetted by the fifth column - the ability to turn any situation into a prop for his political agenda. You can’t make it any more clear than did this jihadi turd - and yet, the blame is on guns.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Orlando is the deadliest terrorist attack in America since 9/11, and resembles the terrorist attacks which happened in Paris and Brussels. Yet the media are virtually ignoring the fact that this was a terrorist attack.

IMHO “the media” is the wrong formulation, and represents a failure to confront the actual problem. Communications media as such - mere technologies - are not the problem. The problem is tendentious journalism. Tendentious journalism, and a credulous public:

The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.

The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

I am saddened that the focus has all been about gun control.

Look at it from the journalist’s point of view. They want to be believed, to be our “leader and director.” But what would be the big deal about leading in the obvious direction?? Any fool can do that. What’s really exciting is to lead in the obviously wrong direction! That, in the journalist’s mind, takes talent. </sarcasm>