# The liberal media ignores terrorist attack **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277 "2015-01-08T00:27:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/21 "2015-01-08T15:57:52Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > So what time of day on Tuesday would you have expected to see a minor explosion in Colorado Springs that occurred at 11am, caused no injury, minor property damage, and may or may not be an act of domestic terrorism splashed all over the national news? > > By the way, I got all that information from an article on page 2 of the Dayton Daily News this morning. Page 2… pffft! And I bet it was BELOW the fold, newspaper Siberia. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/22 "2015-01-08T16:38:22Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > I know that the news cycle yesterday was consumed by the events in Paris and rightly so. The failed bombing at the the NAACP offices happened in the morning of the day before. This. And I don’t care if nobody was injured. This should have been front-page news for at least that day. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/23 "2015-01-08T16:46:29Z")
[And really ignores a terrorist bombing of NAACP HQ in Colorado.](http://www.upworthy.com/the-recent-bombing-in-america-that-you-probably-didnt-hear-about-on-the-news?c=bl3) > [@](#): > > Thank God for social media, otherwise word wouldn’t have gotten out. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/24 "2015-01-08T17:02:43Z")
Two views of bad behavior. The first when it wasn’t known the bad guy was a cop, the second after. [NY Daily News](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/04/heres-how-differently-the-media-covers-an-assault-before-and-after-learning-it-was-done-by-a-cop/) > [@](#): > > “Notice anything? Gone is the evocative “thug” in the headline and the “hulking brute” of the lede, and the sensationalism of the label of an “unprovoked” attack, replaced by plainspoken and bare nouns. Gone, too, is the directness of the active voice, replaced by a circumspect passive voice, accompanied by the (necessary) lawyerly “allegedly.” The callousness of him smiling has been dropped, too, demoted to the second paragraph. This is no surprise — it’s just an example of the subtle way in which our media defers to and genuflects before law enforcement, shaping and coloring the narrative in their favor.” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/25 "2015-01-08T17:06:46Z")
I still don’t know who I should be angry at. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/26 "2015-01-08T17:19:35Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Well, I’m one of the folks around here who doesn’t buy into the “media has a liberal bias meme”, but if you think you just disproved that meme then you’re sorely mistaken. You might note that most of the media attention yesterday was focused on an actual deadly terror attack in France where 11 people were killed, and the perps were yet to be captured. A couple of points: As has been pointed out, the NAACP bombing was a day earlier. Slow news day. Still didn’t make it. The shooting in Paris was _Muslim terrah-ists_! The bombing in Colorado was probably domestic right-wing terrorists. More in the mold of hero outlaws like Clive Bundy and Eric Rudolph. Both those point to a Fox-News view of the world bias. And if you think the ‘might have been an act of terrorism’ means there’s any real chance it wasn’t, you’re more naive than the late Earl Warren. A detonator strapped to a gas can, outside the NAACP office, is not just vandalism. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/27 "2015-01-08T17:52:54Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > It was? You can argue it’s a stupid point (as many here are), but the point is obvious, yes. He’s using a right wing frame to complain about something affecting an organization on the left so as to point out supposed hypocrisy and bias in news reporting. What more does he need? More exclamation points? Smilies? If anything, he went over the top when he accused Fox of being in on the liberal conspiracy. He probably wrote that part thinking that would clue anyone in who was confused up to that point. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/28 "2015-01-08T17:53:33Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > So what time of day on Tuesday would you have expected to see a minor explosion in Colorado Springs that occurred at 11am, caused no injury, minor property damage, and may or may not be an act of domestic terrorism splashed all over the national news? > > By the way, I got all that information from an article on page 2 of the Dayton Daily News this morning. I don’t know, maybe a mention on the evening news. What about you, if a bomb was found at the office of a controversial national political group that had for failed to go off for a technical reason, when would you expect to hear about it? Do you think that incompetent terrorists are not terrorists? If I attached an M80 to a can containing several gallons of gasoline and placed it next to the office of a controversial political group, you don’t think I would be charged with or convicted of terrorism related charges if caught? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/29 "2015-01-08T18:02:17Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > You can argue it’s a stupid point (as many here are), but the point is obvious, yes. He’s using a right wing frame to complain about something affecting an organization on the left so as to point out supposed hypocrisy and bias in news reporting. What more does he need? More exclamation points? Smilies? If anything, he went over the top when he accused Fox of being in on the liberal conspiracy. He probably wrote that part thinking that would clue anyone in who was confused up to that point. Thank you **marshmallow** , that is exactly what I was intending. In retrospect it looks weak to me and I openly admit my failure at being witty or even making my point. In my defense, I had expected most dopers to share our intelligence and insight. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/30 "2015-01-08T18:02:36Z")
> [@bup](#): > > A couple of points: > As has been pointed out, the NAACP bombing was a day earlier. Slow news day. Still didn’t make it. > > The shooting in Paris was _Muslim terrah-ists_! The bombing in Colorado was probably domestic right-wing terrorists. More in the mold of hero outlaws like Clive Bundy and Eric Rudolph. > > Both those point to a Fox-News view of the world bias. > > And if you think the ‘might have been an act of terrorism’ means there’s any real chance it wasn’t, you’re more naive than the late Earl Warren. A detonator strapped to a gas can, outside the NAACP office, is not just vandalism. I’m just quoting for the OP’s own link, which says the police are still trying to figure out what the motive was. But hows about we all wait until the official report is out before we purport to “know” what it was, even if odds are in favor of it being so? And since the OP is not too good at satire, perhaps he can lay out, in plain English, exactly what his point is. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/31 "2015-01-08T18:04:10Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I still don’t know who I should be angry at. I think you are supposed to be angry at the terrorists. Or maybe the left-wing media. Or maybe you are supposed to be angry at me. I don’t know, take your pick. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/32 "2015-01-08T18:05:24Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m just quoting for the OP’s own link, which says the police are still trying to figure out what the motive was. But hows about we all wait until the official report is out before we purport to “know” what it was, even if odds are in favor of it being so? > > And since the OP is not too good at satire, perhaps he can lay out, in plain English, exactly what his point is. What, you think I work for the onion? Dammit John, I’m an engineer, not a comedian! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/33 "2015-01-08T18:40:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m just quoting for the OP’s own link, which says the police are still trying to figure out what the motive was. But hows about we all wait until the official report is out before we purport to “know” what it was, even if odds are in favor of it being so? The police may not know exactly what the bombers were upset about, but I think it’s safe to say they had bad enough intentions for this to be newsworthy. Unless you think that maybe this was a poorly planned demolition operation or something. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/34 "2015-01-08T20:05:54Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I’m assuming that this is some kind of bullshit post, as there is, in fact, more important news happening today. But they blew up the barber shop! That is not cool man. Now where am I supposed to hang out and get my fade on. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/35 "2015-01-08T20:23:23Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > What, you think I work for the onion? Dammit John, I’m an engineer, not a comedian! Well, drink some of that Grrrreen stuff, laddie. It’ll loosen your thinking some! ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/36 "2015-01-08T20:48:47Z")
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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/37 "2015-01-08T21:06:19Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > I bet if it was a tea party office it would have gotten immediate coverage. THIS IS A FOX NEWS ALERT!! THIS IS A FOX NEWS ALERT!! We now go to Sarah Palin for comment: “This is an attack on our freedoms, our liberty, and our way of life! The time is now to stand up and fight!!” Oh look, another FOX NEWS ALERT!! Our Fox News Poll shows that 95% of viewers think it’s Obama’s fault while 85% think he had a direct hand in it. No comment as yet from the White House (tsk,tsk) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/38 "2015-01-08T21:25:37Z")
A scorched wall and representative of the NAACP office said it’s important not to overreact until more is known. It’s Colorado. If you’re pro-gun laws you’ll probably get bombed or shot too. Heck, you might get shot up for going to a Batman movie. No need for the country to go to DEFCON 1. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/39 "2015-01-08T23:14:52Z")
Could’ve been a bowling dispute. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277/40 "2015-01-09T02:58:06Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > Not until more than 24 hours after the attack. That’s the point. It was not covered by any news outlets until it went viral on twitter. Are date and time stamps available to show social media was first with the story ahead of traditional media? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-liberal-media-ignores-terrorist-attack/709277.md?page=1)