07-08-2005, 04:35 PM
Cidien Wrote:I'm not saying it doesn't happen, and it is probably worse now. Heck, it happened before 9/11 too. I'm just saying don't read too much into what the news (foreign or not) and tv shows say. They usually make it sound way worse than it is. Take for example the news always reporting kidnappings of kids and such. There aren't that many kidnappings happening - the news just decided to report on a ton of them and make it sound way worse than it actually is.
It's because of the media's bad habit of blowing everything out of proportion that I like to rely on statistics. Statistics don't lie, even if they don't attach a face to the drama.