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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News editors lack the time to prioritize news stories by actual impact so instead go with gut feelings, which are always wrong. They'll thus lead with a woman climbing palace gates (to no consequence), and ignore new legislation whose small print infringes everyone's human rights
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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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