Originally posted by pheneix
Not to sound pessimistic, but WDW has always been on the terrorist "hit lists," and always will be. The only difference is that now there is more a spotlight on that fact after 9/11. Blame the media. If it freaks out the public, the media will exploit it for all it is worth.
Is it any more dangerous to visit though? Probably not. Don't be nervous, there is really no more of a danger than there was before.
Originally posted by pheneix
>>>Blame the media.... I think not...blame the FBI, Homeland security, & the CIA for the vague warnings they give to the media to announce.<<<
Well, that too.
But just recently I saw an article that I made my heart sank. In a story about the growing threat of terrorism, they had a picture of Sleeping Beauty Castle with the characters hanging out in fron of it. The caption under it read: "A small container of radioactive material could kill thousands and permanently put Disneyland out of business." That is completely uncalled for, and was only in the article to disturb the reader.
So yes, the media has quite a bit to do with it.
Originally posted by pheneix
>>>what you spoke about above most likely came from the trashy, tabloid, attention getting, jerks...<<<
Nope, it was an article in one of the local newspapers in the Sacramento area, "Sacramento Times" or something.
My local news paper (in a backwater town in Central NC, if anyone is wondering) does the same thing. Granted, half of the trash in The Daily Record is nothing but local gossip and rumors anyway, but some of the stuff they run is pathetic (my personal favorite is the FRONT PAGE headline reading "Horse Found Dead Beside Highway." as if that wasn't enough, they had a freaking picture of the half decomposed animal on the front page for all to see!). What is even sadder is that this paper won "Best Regional Paper" in the country several years ago by some publishing company.
The media is blowing everything out of proportion. Wasn't it two weeks ago that we were "definately going to have a terrorist act commited"?
In my experience the American Media spent very litle time worrying about what is going on elsewhere in the world and more about their own soil.Originally posted by FanofDinsey1981
I just had an arugment with a friend, who said that the media is good for the american people on posting what is goin on in the world, how else are we going to find out about this stuff?!
Originally posted by Mortimer
While I do think the media hypes things up more than they need to, I don't think we should be blaming them, homeland security, the FBI, or the CIA. The fact is that we are receiving vague info about possible attacks and they are trying to keep us warned. It amazes me how people in this country adopt this attitude that if they ignore things that they are not there. I also believe that we need to go on living our lives, but we need to be educated as we do so. If we all, as a country, start paying attention to what is going on around us, we will be a much safer country.
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