A bomb scare is not the same as a bomb explosion. Even if, because of the circunstances of the time, it gets treated seriously enough to close down a city centre.

I think it can be pretty safely said that if, God forbid, something like last Thursday happened elsewhere in the UK, it would get the same level of attention from the media.

As El Greko says "news values" do affect how tragedies in distant places are handled, and that can be oddly out of balance, but it's a reflection of what the media believe their readers or viewers are likely to be concerned about, rather than a conspiracy to distort public opinion. And the nature of coverage is also affected by such things as as where the reporters actually are when it happens - for example, in this case, commuting to work on the Underground or bus.

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And don't anyone be taken in by talk about people in mosques rejoicing at last week's events by people who would appear to be trying to stir up hate. "It is an evil that cannot be justified and that we utterly condemn and reject," is how Sheikh Dr Zaki Badawi, of the Council of Mosques and Imams put it; and there is clearly a great deal of anger among Muslims in this country at the killers, more especially since the victims included an unknown number of Muslims.