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(2,955 posts)
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 02:57 PM Apr 2017

People need to stop letting the media scare them so much

It's all just a ratings game for the media. Scarier headlines=more clicks=more revenue. NOTHING is actually gonna happen with NK. We've been down this road before and it's basically just a stupid game of chicken where nothing ever happens in the end. Ultimately it's all just a big distraction, and Trump loves it because it keeps away the speculation about Russian involvement in the election.

Nothing is gonna happen, nothing ever happens, and we're not gonna have a nuclear war. Stop letting the fear mongering media distract you from real issues.

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People need to stop letting the media scare them so much (Original Post) Calculating Apr 2017 OP
Let's hope so. cheapdate Apr 2017 #1
Emotional string-pulling reporting is the order of the day. NCTraveler Apr 2017 #2
I turned them off since Friday malaise Apr 2017 #3
We've never had Donald Trump as President before. Mad-in-Mo Apr 2017 #4

cheapdate

(3,811 posts)
1. Let's hope so.
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 03:20 PM
Apr 2017

But a nuclear-armed North Korea firing missiles in the general direction of Japan while a U.S. carrier group conducts exercises off-shore, and while hundreds of thousands of U.S., North and South Korean soldiers with their tanks, guns, missiles, and artillery face each other across the DMZ is a real thing.

The media's reporting on the situation might not be too great, but the situation is real and isn't going away.

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