The reason for this is that journos now treat every such incident as a possible jihadi attack. They do this partly because they've been conditioned to by the West vs Jihad narrative, and partly because the public has developed an appetite for terror, which they want to sate. https://twitter.com/WillBlackWriter/status/916763288356249601 …
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When this is done repeatedly, it deludes readers into miscalculating the importance of various events, creating false narratives that show danger in safety and safety in danger. The media see new appetites among audiences, and tailor their news accordingly, perpetuating the lies
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Hence, when people think of problems in Islam, they automatically think of terrorism, even though terrorism ruins far fewer lives than, say, consanguineous marriage, which affects whole bloodlines, and may eventually result in the extinction of certain gene-pools.
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In conclusion: Don't judge the importance of a news story by the amount of space it takes up in a newspaper.
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Not sure it's about time rather immediacy. They report what (they think) we're interested in. And as you noted, terror features prominently.
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And then SM magnifies that. A small story get RT by say Katie Hopkins and becomes noticed and a consequently bigger story.
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