Wednesday, July 27, 2016

München shooting: terror embedded journalism?

There’s a certain “yawn…” moment looming about “daily shooter” phenomena provided, of course, that you are not getting shot yourself. It stems from predictability. What independent media dub “anomalies” does not seem so anomalous anymore, because anomalies themselves are apparently inevitable, and therefore: predictable, even more so then the main line of events mediated by mass media.

We are talking, of course, about frequent unreliability of media images, ties of perpetrators to some form of security and/or intelligence services, unbelievable nature of not so minute details of the story, etc.

München shoot out of July, 22 (dubbed in German München Amoklauf – “running amok” ) displays one such possible “un-anomalous anomaly”, we’ll name, for the sake of the argument, “terror-embedded journalism”.

Predictably enough, hot European summer brings us new installment in the series of “daily shooter”, enriched by “monster truck rampage special” attack in Nice, France (July, 14).

However, the anomaly of new weapon of choice in the form of lorry being allowed through famous promenade, killing whole bunch of people in the process, pales in comparison to the nature of media node that provided the world with first moving images of atrocity exhibition. Full story...

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