What's the big deal?

Failure in the war on terror has to be downplayed so Tienery hauls some water for the NeoCons.

Just as New Yorkers came to be guided by crime statistics instead of the mayhem on the evening news, people might begin to believe the statistics showing that their odds of being killed by a terrorist are minuscule in Iraq or anywhere else.

Terrorists know the numbers are against them and realize that daily bombings will not win the war. All along, their hope has been to inspire recruits and spread general fear with another tactic, the bombing as photo opportunity. For some reason, their media strategy still works.

If the main stream media reports on terror attacks, you're aiding and abetting the enemy.

I'm not advocating official censorship, but there's no reason the news media can't reconsider their own fondness for covering suicide bombings. A little restraint would give the public a more realistic view of the world's dangers.

unofficial censorship is okay and here's Tienery's idea: Imagine a world where news coverage is directly proportional to it's fraction of the day's events. Call it "fair and balanced Part II". Since suicide bombers are a small portion of world's daily events, news about such events should be fair and balanced and thus relegated to that proportion of the newspaper.

The Tinker Bell strategy, if we all clap louder and ignore the problem, it will go away.

Tienery, like his twin David Brooks, is an ass.