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Originally Posted by Damien
I do think news companies should stop treating any incident that might be terrorist related with such force if the circumstances are otherwise unremarkable. Yesterday this car crash was broadcast across the world. Nigel Farage was straight on Fox News to vent about the danger of living in London, Katie Hopkins was telling tourists (well any tourist sad enough to read her Twitter) that's it's unsafe to come, news channels were broadcasting BREAKING NEWS. It was a traffic incident and people did the terrorists job for them, spreading fear and terror, without them needing to do anything. 
An act of violence committed with terrorist intent does add an additional dimension to it but I am not convinced it adds so much more to turn a relatively common crime/accident to an international news story. |
I agree with you to an extent but here we had a car running into and injuring 10+ people outside of a likely terrorist target so it would be headline news whether terrorist related or not.
If this had happened at a bustop in Bolton then, I agree, we would have wanted a different media response.