I know its too soon..

[busterbrown]

But I’m so sick and tired of the so called Terrorist Experts who flood the nerworks after an attack.

To a fucking dime... They always say the exact same things... “Was he a lone wolf, was it Isis or Al-queda...
Then 10 minutes on the great skills of British Intelligence..and so on and so on..and fucking so on..

I’m not rantimg against coverage.. Just this one particular element .. Intelligence Experts

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. They have to fill air time when they have almost no information.

So they say the same old things.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. I joked during one of our last several wars I was going to get an eye patch and sell ....

.... myself to cable news as a terrorism expert. Maybe a Colonel.

I could totally spit out the same BS.

Turns out some fraud beat me to it on Fox.

[jberryhill]

9. They could fill the air time with news

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. They could. But if it bleeds, it leads....

[MADem]

2. They keep them on retainer and they're space fillers. Just understand this and it all makes sense.

They news after any event like this comes out in squirts--rather like a bad case of the shits, frankly.


It's not a "total data dump." There is a spasm, a splat of information, and then quiet, waiting for the next painful, slow cycle! In between squirts, they need something to fill the time. Those intelligence experts are the time fillers, who are there to yap-yap-yap while the talking heads play the same video over and over.

It's a formula.

[jberryhill]

6. In between squirts, they could report the news

If it was a drunk hitting a school bus with the same death toll, it would not be a big deal.

But, yeah, terrorists want panic media attention and so we make sure they get it.

[MADem]

7. They've got pictures of a chubby guy with leg wounds in his underwear.

They had to rip off his trou in order to bandage his wounds.

It's what they'll keep showing, over and over.

Until they find a better shot.

Very annoying, it is -- it's easier to just get the news from the computer!

[jberryhill]

8. Do we have an expert panel

on whether his trousers were torn by the blast?

It's a horrific thing. But the very point of these horrific things is that every madman knows he can jerk us all by the chain and we let them do it.

What was interesting to me was that I was in Provence on Bastille Day last year, not far from Nice. Even there, it was not treated the way we do this ritual here.

[MADem]

12. Don't know. It looked like they were removed (maybe cut off?) b/c he was sporting a bandage.

I didn't see any raggy bits.

The death tool is up to 22. It was, they're saying, a suicide bomber. One. They know who, supposedly, but no name just yet.

Now comes the deconstruction and analysis....

Nice got a TON of coverage outside France--I watched feeds from UK and USA for hours. I wonder if they've put up those auto-bollards that raise up out of the ground, like in NYC this past week?

[jberryhill]

4. It plays right into the terrorist's insane plan

At the end of the day, bombs are not tremendously hard to make from a variety of materials.

There are nuts who will latch onto anything to sow chaos and get attention, even if posthumous.

There is no reason to give them wall to wall saturation attention with the attendant trotting out of speculation and fever pitch reaction. It's what these people want, and we foolishly have it to them on a platter.

[OneBlueDotBama]

5. The South Armagh Brigade

of the IRA, would be great guests and experts. Call this a amateur job, bunch of wankers, no they're pikers.

[KT2000]

11. Nance is good

Always listen to what he has to say.