Terrorism watcher Jeffrey Imm explains a critically important phenomenon: only a tiny fraction of the actual incidences of Jihadist terrorism is actually being presented to the American people by the media that is supposed to inform us.
So in considering this 9/11 anniversary, and how much still needs to change to protect Americans, we need to keep in focus the fact that one of the reasons why so little has changed is because the American public -- five years after 9/11 -- is still woely uninformed by the mainstream media on Jihadist terrorism. The valiant efforts of numerous bloggers to try to the "fill the vacuum" are laudible - but they don't change a fundamental fact - that untold MILLIONS of Americans still have no concept about the Jihadist world war, because the mainstream media refuses to effectively report the news about it.Posted by Alan at September 10, 2006 04:49 PMWhat the mainstream media is comfortable with is treating the Jihadist terrorist threat as "history" - as we will see this weekend as 9/11 attacks from five years ago are regurgitated. But the latest attempt by British Jihadists to kill many thousands of Americans, the latest bombing in Pakistan, Philippines, India, Israel, etc? The latest activities by Jihadists in Europe and other parts of the world? Don't expect to hear about that - after all, that is "news" about the current and continuing Jihadist terror threat.