John Gibson: Why Is NBC No Longer Worried About Terrorism?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244319,00.html

Why Is NBC No Longer Worried About Terrorism?
By John Gibson

I must stick up for Jack Bauer and "24," the hit FOX show that has had America on the edge of its seat for a few years now.

This week in the season launch our hero Jack failed and the terrorists managed to set off a nuke bomb. A CNN piece had someone wondering if the episode was, in fact, a neocon sex fantasy. And MSNBC calls Jack and his suspense program right-wing propaganda.

So what has happened to NBC that it doesn't worry about terrorism anymore?

It's one thing to make the argument — as MSNBC does — that George Bush has carried the 9/11 reaction too far, that we didn't need to go to war against Saddam. But it's quite another thing for NBC to argue that we have nothing to worry about at all, and the idea of a nuke attack by terrorists against the U.S. is a subject for ridicule.

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If NBC believes that we live in a 9/10 world — a world in which terrorism is simply a fiction created by an evil president who wants to militarize the planet — then NBC is doing a disservice to the public. Any number of statements from overseas enemies of the United States back up the notion that we are a target for terrorism on a massive scale, and there is not a scintilla of evidence that it is all made up, or fiction, or the kind of stuff NBC should ignore or diminish in importance.