{"id":35313,"date":"2016-07-16T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35313"},"modified":"2017-04-15T23:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T03:14:53","slug":"newspapers-after-the-attack-in-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/07\/16\/newspapers-after-the-attack-in-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers after the attack in Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2016\/07\/15\/nasty-in-nice\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Warren<\/a> on the way much of the newspaper coverage is actually helping the terrorists and their supporters by showing just how effective any given attack has been and how emotionally soft the target nations have become:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is the news here? \u2026 A lorry drives a mile through trapped crowds at a Bastille Day celebration, killing dozens of people along the <em>Promenade des Anglais<\/em> in Nice. The driver was a Muslim terrorist, as usual. Police finally shot him dead. They are now looking into his background and connexions.<\/p>\n<p>And? \u2026 That is the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>Anything the media can add to these plain facts is prurient and macabre. Moreover, it is helpful to the other side. Grand public displays of \u201cmourning\u201d make it worse; for that is the effect the terrorists are seeking. Why should we play into their hands?<\/p>\n<p>Each victim had a family with a circle of friends, for whom the horror is real, and the mourning may be genuine. The rest \u2014 the millions \u2014 are putting on a show, advertising France, and the West generally, as squeamish and unmanly; as one big soft underbelly. It \u201csends a message\u201d back to the Islamists, and that message is: \u201cKeep it up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I am myself looking through the front pages of newspapers from France and all over: covered with the colour photographs to full bleed, with big banner headlines. Nor is there a news website not painted the same way. Somehow (and I know how, from having worked with these ghouls) they manage to fill page after page with redundant or unnecessary details.<\/p>\n<p>To condemn such attacks is pointless. The iniquity is too obvious for that. Every form of venting can be done privately. Those who applaud such carnage, will not be reached by words of disapproval.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Warren on the way much of the newspaper coverage is actually helping the terrorists and their supporters by showing just how effective any given attack has been and how emotionally soft the target nations have become: What is the news here? \u2026 A lorry drives a mile through trapped crowds at a Bastille Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,28],"tags":[804,213,257],"class_list":["post-35313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-media","tag-mourningsickness","tag-newspapers","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35314,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35313\/revisions\/35314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}