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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.

If we ever become complacent about terror, we're done.

Who is "us all"?

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 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.

People wouldn’t know what’s going on.”

Maybe you didn't read all of what Kerry said. His last line was. "People wouldn't know what's going on". And that is his purpose: essentially censure. Censure is never right, particularly when people are being murdered, often in mass.

I'll agree that the media does not cover anything like this well, mostly because their journalism and journalistic ethics simply suck. And it always comes around to blaming the gun. But it has to be reported. Just better, but that may well be a bridge too far for the New Pravda.

In that same vein, limiting the media's over-the-top-wailing for days would serve the public interest well.

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.

Limiting is a tremendously dangerous precedent that equated to invalidating the first amendment. The one 2A was included to protect.

I think not. Let them wail and silence them in the marketplace not at the cost of lost freedoms.

Not possible to black out the news in such a way today, but there is precedents where the public good is served by limiting the public's right to know.

Who died and made you king?

If the public has a "RIGHT-to-know," then they have a right. The limitation of rights is an act of deception and sabotage against another.

I'll take care of me and my own based on the information that I have. You or anyone else limiting that information is an act of sabotage against my survival.