mattwnz:

 

lxsw20:

 

BlueShift:

 

As far as "terrorist attacks" go its only the location of it that has made it newsworthy. Driving into a crowd of pedestrians, then sticking a knife in a few people is not really an organized terror attack. Its central London - you could sneeze on the tube and kill more than 4 people. It sounds more like a lone crazy to me.

 

 

 

 

Exactly. Way over hyped IMO. All it's caused for me is panicked family back in NZ. I was in Covent Garden at the time, and apart from more choppers it was London business as usual. The media loves a good terrorism story. 

 

 

 

 

I agree. Before 9/11, and the London tube and bus bombings (which I do consider terror attacks)  this probably wouldn't have been called a 'terrorist attack', but something like 'a mad man causes carnage'. But that wouldn't have got the clicks and headlines as much as a 'terrorist attack'. Stuffs webpage has videos with scary sounding music http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/90758932/london-terror-attack-terrorism-the-city-feared-was-coming , which only causes panic.

 

 

 

I notice that near the end of the story it even says 'At the time of writing this is not a confirmed terror attack', so the media shouldn't even be referring to it as that.

 

 

 

But still obviously very bad what has happened. 

 

The Met Police were treating it as a terrorist attack from the get go, until otherwise proven not, so I think the media had every right to report that.

If it had of been phase 1 of a coordinated attack, their immediate response would have saved the lives of many.