The lamestream media don't help, either, with the way they cover events, encouraging people to tear up on camera and rooting around constantly for tear-jerking angles on stories. Many of those newscasts find their way onto international airwaves and influence how we are perceived abroad just like violent and sleazy movies and television shows do.
It's true, too, that they love to cover the little street memorials where people go to grieve publicly. Quiet church-goers are not on their radar screen.
I was amazed, although I shouldn't have been, that the 11:00 news spent forever around the people and flowers and put off as long as they could showing Bush addressing the nation. You can see why other nations would believe that the country consists of mournful women and children. Of course, many would not hesitate to destroy these women and children.