Are Dutch media deliberately downplaying terror threats?

I am just wondering, because this little civil war tidbit never appeared in Dutch newspapers. Elsevier News Weekly ran it on their website, though - after I'd tipped them off.

Now I have to read about a foiled bomb attack on Rotterdam at Robert John's blog (not that it isn't a delight to absorb his musings on miniskirts in Iran). Even more weird: Robert John gets his stuff from the Chinese (!) website Xinhua. Here's the story. Xinhua attributes all this to De Telegraaf, which is a large populist newspaper (though not nearly as bad as it's made out to be), but even if that's correct, why didn't any of the quality broadsheets pick it up? Or, for that matter, populist blog GeenStijl, which is closely intertwined with De Telegraaf? (I just did a query at their blog with search string 'Rotterdam' - no relevant results.)

Makes you wonder: has 'ignorance is bliss' become official media policy?

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