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This bonkers move from the tabloid press proves they’ve totally lost the plot over ISIS
The household tabloid the Daily Star has forecast a zombie apocalypse at the hands of ISIS (Daesh), highlighting the ridiculous fearmongering by the media:
In a laughable attempt to substantiate their story, they cite Dr Arnold T. Blumberg:
The spread of a virus that could depersonalise human beings into rabid killers is conceivable.
In the epitome of blowing Daesh out of proportion, the Daily Star presents the argument that because such an idea is “conceivable” it is worth reporting on. By that logic, we could write the story: ‘ISIS could be farming cows that produce toxic milk to poison your cheddar’. That is conceivable, too.
Blumberg teaches pop culture college courses and is known as the ‘Doctor of the Dead’. The distinction between Blumberg’s fiction and the non-fiction of Daesh is apparently irrelevant to the article.
The Daily Star’s piece is a more striking example of the mainstream media, in the west, losing the plot over Daesh. However, what seems to be irrelevant to the general coverage on Daesh that we consume daily, is the wider context and the facts that are obscured in the process. While Daesh does commit unspeakable atrocities that we condemned, the surrounding context is vital. For example, the UK’s ally, Saudi Arabia, beheaded 47 people in one day last month.
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Source: http://www.philosophers-stone.co.uk/?p=8991
