I don't like Kerry, but he's right on this one, and not just for terrorism, but mass shootings as well. Not calling for a news blackout, but the media in this country bemoans and wails in the aftermath of an attack on a scale the world has seldom seen. In the meantime, more people die in traffic accidents during the first days after such an attack with little notice.
In a fight with another person you don't want to make victim noises as they motivate and encourage your opponent. The same is true for a nation. The media should report the facts, but avoid wall to wall coverage of every detail and every weeping person they can find as doing so actually glorifies the effectiveness of the attackers in the warped minds of those who want to do the same. The result is you get more attacks.
We don't need to know what everybody involved had for breakfast, but we absolutely need to know who's pulling this sh*t and who they work for.
We also need to know about the innocent victims so we can stay resolved to burn the terrorists in their holes at every opportunity.
I agree.
If we ever become complacent about terror, we're done.
We don't want to be complacent, but we should take such attacks in prospective given the number of people who die on the roads every day, or those killed by gang violence. The main stream media is doing no public service repeating the same news over and over for days and sometimes weeks, even going so far as to rehash it all again on the anniversary of such events.
Terror loses its purpose when it doesn't terrorize the public, and that makes us all safer.
