Kind of crazy that an ISIS attack in France is getting basically zero coverage

[oberliner]

Several innocent people killed and injured in a supermarket attack in France by a terrorist pledging allegiance to ISIS and it has barely cracked the news on CNN or MSNBC.

Excerpt:

The man entered the supermarket just after 11 a.m., according to local media reports. Holding grenades, knives, and a gun, he shouted his allegiance to the Islamic State, and yelled “Vengeance for Syria!” before he began shooting. The store’s butcher and a customer were reportedly killed, but a local police chief said the death toll is expected to rise.

After the killings, the gunman took several customers hostage. Others escaped or hid from him.

“I saw a door into a freezer room and I told other people around me to come and take refuge there. There were ten of us and we stayed there for an hour,” one hostage told France Info radio. “There were more shots and we eventually got out through an emergency exit at the back.”

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/gunman-3-others-killed-in-french-terrorist-attack.html

You'd think this would get some TV coverage.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Sex sells.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Too much terror going on in D.C.

[spanone]

3. hard to see beyond the terrorist in the white house

[Fred Sanders]

4. America needs to worry about the far great threat of domestic RW terrorism

and terrorism by 300 million guns. As we see nearly daily...domestic media is now finally covering all acts of domestic terrorism like never before, as they should.

France can handle it...they will never be terrorized by lone wolves with mental disorders yelling "ISIS" as of that makes any real difference to much.

[oberliner]

5. Still surprising that it has been barely covered

It seems like other similar attacks have gotten more coverage.

[Demsrule86]

8. Probably disappointing for Republicans. ..also their sycophants and trolls.

They love that stuff.

[oberliner]

11. I don't think Republicans care about CNN and MSNBC

Except to make fun of them.

Personally, I would like to learn more about what happened from sources I trust (not just online).

[ck4829]

14. Except to make fun of them... like the overgrown children that they are

Welcome to days of absurdity; where people vote for Nazis and sex offenders with visions of a fascist theocracy in order to "own the libs" and a deadly attack by ISIS is page 3 news.

[oberliner]

17. We are truly in bizarro world

In so many ways.

[Demsrule86]

15. I mean the lack of coverage for the terrorist story...the GOP loves that sort of thing.

[oberliner]

16. Fair point

Edit: I am actually seeing coverage of it on CNN now.

[Demsrule86]

18. There has always been terrorism. I come from Connecticut and my neighbor lost his daughter when

Gaddafi blew up flight 103. She was their only daughter...I never knew her, but my Mom said she was lovely.

[Hortensis]

31. Oberliner, everyone who reads world news saw it.

What do you want? The media to grab those who aren't interested enough to bother, hold them down, and force it on them?

The issue isn't that it isn't covered, it's that many people simply aren't wired to care particularly about what's happening outside their personal worlds. There are those who are, and those who are not. And it's very real.

Our neighbors' 17-year-old son shocked me long ago when he asked me very seriously WHY on earth would he want to go on the student exchange to Greece that he'd been offered. He really meant it, zero interest. It was an epiphany for me because I hadn't learned about this yet. Btw, orientation to small personal, often rich and happy, worlds versus big, varied worlds is especially common in conservatives, although not all conservatives are that way by any means.

[Kingofalldems]

28. Boom!

[Fred Sanders]

33. Shitler may have noticed the media coverage, other than Faux of course, was not enough to

feed his bloodthirsty cult, so he tweeted some breakfast gruel this morning for them.

EVERY tweet is for his cult...every one.

[Demsrule86]

34. That is what I think...I suppose Bolten will breathlessly announce that Iran

is responsible for all terrorism everywhere, and the first strike is on the way.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Personally I am not "concerned" that this is not getting enough coverage, either.

[kacekwl]

6. President dumb ass said he defeated ISIS didn't he.

Must have been someone else who carried out this attack.

[Demsrule86]

7. Is it? Well terrorists going to do what they do...the GOP just likes it to

get attention as a distraction anyway.

[bdamomma]

9. It will be on BBC

nt.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world

[JI7]

10. The Texas bombings got little coverage also

And that happened in the US

[oberliner]

12. I actually thought they got quite a bit of coverage

Granted they were over a longer period of time.

[workinclasszero]

13. We have a nazi threat in Washington DC going on 24/7

Sucking all the air outta the room.

[oberliner]

22. Sometimes it feels like the Trump coverage is a little redundant

For instance, the CNN shows tend to be kind of similar throughout the day, discussing the same half-dozen Trump related stories and pontificating about them.

[Demsrule86]

35. Not to me. I take great pleasure in Shitler being shown for what he is...and anything

that shows that he is a lying stupid piece of fascist shit. works for me.

[IcyPeas]

19. Yountville didn't get much coverage either

I was surprised since the victims were from a Veteran's home. Here was a guy with a gun who had been getting mental health care and for some reason was kicked out. And he murdered 3 health care workers.

I really thought this would have been a bigger story.

[oberliner]

20. True

It seems like the 24/7 coverage of all things Trump is pushing a lot of serious news off the tv.

[Demsrule86]

36. There is no more serious news than calling Trump out. He is a threat to all of us.

And if they didn't do it he would get away with quite a bit.

[lunasun]

29. Me too that surprised me big time

[melman]

21. Yeah it is

And as always, as we can see in right here in this thread, people here really don't want to talk about it. Always a million reasons why it's not important.

[oberliner]

23. True - not a lot of discussion about the attack on DU either

[McCamy Taylor]

24. Maybe people are beginning to wonder if ISIS is really a political group.

They act more like an organized crime family. Would not surprise me if they are being paid to stir up anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe. I.e. they are working for the right wing. In which case why should DU take notice of them? Except, maybe, as a branch of the KGB. The way Syria is a satellite of Russia.

[oberliner]

25. An organized crime family?

What the hell are you talking about?

[Marengo]

27. You cant possibly be serious

[Oneironaut]

32. Its all socioeconomics.

Any place with a vast majority of military-aged men out of work is going to be hell. They invariably get together and start destroying whatever they see.

That’s exactly what idiotic policies and religion caused portions of the Middle East to become.

[IluvPitties]

30. Sadly, Stormy Freakin' Daniels

is more important in America than global terrorism.

[Demsrule86]

38. If she helps bring down Trump, I am OK with that. And Trump's only answer to terrorism is s

start a war.

[DrDan]

37. saw the story last night on abc - and this morning in our local paper