Even though these types of stories make the headlines for the very reason that the events they describe are particularly severe and relatively uncommon, radicals play-act that the reported goings-on are a daily bane for society and that, if decisive action isn’t taken quickly, the results will be catastrophic and irreversible. For whatever reason, perhaps because of their insatiable thirst for popular adulation, mod-cons find this sort of feigned urgency difficult to ignore, especially when they feel the weight of their ill-informed but boisterous constituents’ gazes.
