Coverage of Threatened Koran Burning Sparks Incidents All Over the Country: Press is at Fault Here

We now see what happens when the press overdoes it on coverage of hate preachers and imams.

Korans have been burned all over the country.  Not that I care too much about that, but I wonder how much of this is due to press influence and over covering this idiotic Florida preacher and his “Burn a Koran Day.”

How long will this fiasco play out overseas?  How many copycats in other Western countries will take place?  And how many more embassies will get burned to the ground?  The uneducated Afghans are already murdering people in the streets.  They can’t even READ the Koran.

I registered my disagreement with the burnings on 9/11.  That isn’t the date for protests of ANY kind, even though it is the Constitutional right of every American to do so.  And as I had hoped, the pastor changed his mind, but Korans got burned anyways.

And the press is dutifully reporting the incidents, which ARE isolated.   But by drawing all this attention to the distortions of these fanatical religious leaders, who are NOT part of mainstream Christianity, or of Islam for that matter, the press is making matters worse by creating a bigger splash to sell news and improve their ratings.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that the press WANTS a war between the West and Islam.  Their reckless actions in covering these self-important preachers and imams are taking us someplace that we don’t want to be.

The press needs to handle this MUCH more responsibly.