Obama Says Media ‘Overstates’ Terror Threat

[Cali_Democrat]

by Matt Wilstein | 12:16 pm, February 9th, 2015

After President Barack Obama sat down with Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein to discuss domestic policy, including the “Balkanization” of the media, he moved onto to foreign policy with executive editor Matt Yglesias. This time, during a question about how the media covers terrorism, the president made a bold admission about how the war in Iraq affected our national security here at home.

Yglesias asked Obama if he thinks the media “sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism” as opposed to longer-term problems like climate change and epidemic disease.

“Absolutely,” the president responded, saying he doesn’t blame the press for embracing the old adage, “If it bleeds, it leads.” Obama acknowledged that it’s lot harder to make climate change or cutting infant mortality a “sexy story.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/if-it-bleeds-it-leads-obama-says-media-overstates-terror-threat/

[Jefferson23]

1. Undeniable and essential to point out:

*What the president seemed to be saying this time was, if we never invaded Iraq in the first place, we likely wouldn’t be dealing with ISIS today.

[napkinz]

2. yep

[Jefferson23]

3. We'll not likely avoid future disastrous blunders like this if we avoid talking about the

consequences.

Good on Obama.