Salon ran this piece blaming conservatives while the attacks were still ongoing: <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/11/14/and_so_the_hate_speech_begins_let_paris_be_the_end_of_the_rights_violent_language_toward_activists/" rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/2015/11/14/and_so_the_hate_speech_begin...</a><p>And the Guardian as usual did not disappoint:
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/14/paris-attacks-leave-france-in-trauma-fearing-for-the-future" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/14/paris-a...</a><p>And the left-wing media not long ago had little difficulty exploiting the drowning death of a migrant child due to his father's involvement in human trafficking to justify mass immigration of Muslim economic migrants--at least some of whom we now know were involved in the horrific attack on Paris: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/14/us-france-shooting-greece-idUSKCN0T312W20151114" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/14/us-france-shooting...</a><p>Consequently, the author's complaints of exploitation ring hollow.
To be honest, the shock and pain and angst and awe we feel here in Paris is so overwhelming that I feel too numb to realize that, Yes, of course, people will use this event to promote their own ideological agenda... It makes me sick, truly.<p>This should be a call for peace, not war.
The Power of Nightmares [1] is a really scary series of movies about how extremists on both sides use each other to further their agenda.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares</a>
LOL. Someone in the opinion pages complaining about opportunism... Good one.<p>I'll take this seriously when the NTY introduces a moratorium on all breaking news and stops jumping on things when it fits their agenda but jump against it when it goes against their agendas.<p>To be sure, concealed carry etc. is anathema to European society and also isn't the answer... Just look at iraq lots of weapons by civilians, it does not stop terrorism..But I have to laugh at their indignation of opportunism.
I agree with Bruni's general point, but I'd take Bruni himself a bit more seriously if he didn't cherry pick his examples from people he traditionally disagrees with. Repugnant piggybacking on this atrocity is taking place across the political spectrum.
I was at dinner by myself, browsing Twitter and just running across Salon blaming the right wing ( <a href="https://twitter.com/salon/status/665344751928008704" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/salon/status/665344751928008704</a> ) when the guy sitting at the next table blamed a conspiracy funded by the Koch Brothers to keep us afraid.<p>... I prefer these conspiracy nuts to the pundits; they have a better excuse. But that itself is quite sad.
"[T]he public has access, thanks to the media, to news that they know as 'politics' or 'international relations', 'diplomacy', which only present [...] what we call 'the formal view'. The formal view always masks the 'real view', because the latter is almost always considered not receivable by a public that is <i>not initiated</i> (the widest audience) who would not be able to conceive of international politics in any other way than via the spectrum of ethics adapted only to social relationships between individuals."
- Missions, méthodes, techniques spéciales des services secrets au 21e siècle, Lt Col X and Jacques Leger (generally quite a good book on modern information wars and opinion manipulation)
<a href="http://www.amazon.fr/Missions-m-thodes-techniques-sp-ciales-services-ebook/dp/B00BRV9MZU/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.fr/Missions-m-thodes-techniques-sp-ciales-...</a>
Americans and they idiocracy. I'm happy to live in EU and even though these sort of shocking events happening from time to time I still feel better here than I would ever do in USA. Count your police gun victims it will never add up to what just happened in Paris...