19-12-2015, 03:26 PM
The pattern is pretty much like this: the media and government give us some details about how the crime occurred for a couple of days, and then switch to the emotional elements (the families, the victims, memorials, psychologists on TV) and political interpretation (immigration, radical Islam, gun control, terrorism, more police powers), and then the public tunes it all out and moves on.
Any "corrections" that come out later are ignored, especially since most of the country has already internalized the official story and some political narrative they picked up in their favorite partisan media ("It's Obama's fault! It's Bush's fault! It's the immigrants! It's the guns!").
After 9/11, almost immediately everybody corralled themselves into their predictable camps: the Left with "blowback" or Bush admin failures, the Right with war, torture and surveillance.
The actual investigation of the crime and how it happened, and could it have happened the way the authorities claimed, no longer interests most people.
Any "corrections" that come out later are ignored, especially since most of the country has already internalized the official story and some political narrative they picked up in their favorite partisan media ("It's Obama's fault! It's Bush's fault! It's the immigrants! It's the guns!").
After 9/11, almost immediately everybody corralled themselves into their predictable camps: the Left with "blowback" or Bush admin failures, the Right with war, torture and surveillance.
The actual investigation of the crime and how it happened, and could it have happened the way the authorities claimed, no longer interests most people.