[Wormwood]

I'm all for a richly-deserved skewering, but IMO the press is not only sensationalist but complicit -- and the State is not hysterical but terrorist. The State incites and encourages fear, and then holds itself out to the terrorised public as their only hope. It's all about power. It's not that complicated.

Best post of this thread. It deserved to be repeated in BOLD.

[teddyballgame]

"I'm all for a richly-deserved skewering, but IMO the press is not only sensationalist but complicit -- and the State is not hysterical but terrorist. The State incites and encourages fear, and then holds itself out to the terrorised public as their only hope. It's all about power. It's not that complicated.
Best post of this thread. It deserved to be repeated in BOLD."

Ah, sometimes it's about something that looks like a bomb that's affixed to a bridge. The police invesitigate and the press reports it. No, it isn't complicated.