Politics

When is Terrorism Not Terrorism?

By Anne Landman

The answer is when it is home-grown.

The mainstream media has largely ignored a story about an especially sophisticated and deadly backpack bomb found along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Washington last week, barely covering it beyond an initial mention. The device drew special attention from some news outlets because it contained shrapnel, was equipped with a remotely-controlled detonator, was "directional" (meaning aimed toward the parade route) and in the FBI's words, was "capable of inflicting multiple casualties." The major media barely mentioned the incident, and the lack of follow-up stories on it is even more deafening now that the FBI has concluded that the connection between this incident and racism is "inescapable."  

The mainstream media has been loathe to address the bigger story around this bomb, which is the rise in extremism and extremist terrorism occurring right here at home in the U.S.

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Full post as published by PR Watch on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).