> Terrorism is not about numerical risk, it is about public perception. Public perception is driven by media. Why was so much time spent covering the Boston b

> Terrorism is not about numerical risk, it is about public perception. Public perception is driven by media. Why was so much time spent covering the Boston bombing? The event claimed three lives, it should have been a byline on the local Boston news. If you self immolate, no news outlet will cover it because they want to discourage this kind of behavior. We need to do the same thing with terrorism for related reasons: terrorism makes people irrational. The risks of terrorism are practically non-existent but people get emotional and irrational about it. So the best thing is to just stop covering terrorist attacks.