Terrorists Crave Attention, Media Obliges

Another failure countered his sense of unimportance by hurting many people. Media helped.

A mess-up wanted to get attention and, for a lack of other qualifications, killed and maimed many people — and media obliged as usual. They showed his picture and broadcast his name and his wannabe affiliation — instead of just stating that yet another mess-up hurt so many people to give himself a sense of importance. They also gave generous publicity to a terrorist organization the screw-up claimed an affiliation with.

I am all for giving the means and technical details of an attack, such what weapon, how it was deployed, etc., but not for boosting a wretch’s ego and indulging his need to be “somebody.” What do you think?