Cori Dauber analyzes a remarkable piece of uninformed “reporting” at Newsweek.
For years there’s been a conflict between those who would frame our current situation as a “war” and those who would frame it as something less. I’ve written many times about efforts in the media to downplay the threat posed by global terrorism, and the way the media seeks to avoid the war frame.
Yesterday, however, via Memeorandum, I found a Newsweek piece that went further than any I’ve seen from a major publication, explicitly arguing that we ourselves created the idea of a threat from al Queda, that it’s all a myth, that they’re the gang that couldn’t bomb straight.
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