Katrina vanden Heuvel: Don’t Overstate the Threat ISIS Poses

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Don’t Overstate the Threat ISIS Poses

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Don’t Overstate the Threat ISIS Poses

The Nation’s editor appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to discuss press coverage of ISIS and whether some members of the media are participating in war-mongering.

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Katrina vanden Heuvel appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday to talk about media coverage of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the risk it poses to the United States. During the segment, vanden Heuvel said there’s no question that ISIS wants the United States to overreact and that members of the media are making that more likely to happen. “There is a trivialization—a tabloidization of news coverage,” vanden Heuvel said, “that has infected and affected” the way many outlets cover global issues.

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