On the heels of Hawking's latest book (but totally unrelated) ... we've got a church group planning to burn the Koran.
Really? These people don't have anything better to do with their time other than stir up controversy? What's worse is the media attention they are getting.
There is no story here other than a bunch of idiots trying to incite hatred (in response to other idiots who tried to incite hatred with 9/11), which will probably cause other idiots to react with, you guessed it, more hatred.
It's stories like this that sometimes make me think the media is what will bring down society. They have no filter... a story is a story....even if that plays right in to the hands of people seeking to incite unrest or fuel the fires of religious tensions.
But if they don't cover it, and their competitor does, they lose viewership / readers. So they don't really have much of a choice. But there's no question, the media are the gasoline that can turn a lit match into an inferno.
I guess all we can hope for is that enough of society sees these kinds of cheap PR stunts for what they are, a group of misguided fools seeking to incite anger and hatred in response to a bunch of other misguided fools doing the same thing.
Really? These people don't have anything better to do with their time other than stir up controversy? What's worse is the media attention they are getting.
There is no story here other than a bunch of idiots trying to incite hatred (in response to other idiots who tried to incite hatred with 9/11), which will probably cause other idiots to react with, you guessed it, more hatred.
It's stories like this that sometimes make me think the media is what will bring down society. They have no filter... a story is a story....even if that plays right in to the hands of people seeking to incite unrest or fuel the fires of religious tensions.
But if they don't cover it, and their competitor does, they lose viewership / readers. So they don't really have much of a choice. But there's no question, the media are the gasoline that can turn a lit match into an inferno.
I guess all we can hope for is that enough of society sees these kinds of cheap PR stunts for what they are, a group of misguided fools seeking to incite anger and hatred in response to a bunch of other misguided fools doing the same thing.
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