Are the TV news media actually culpable for today’s terrorist attack by constantly reinforcing a narrative where any criticism of Islam is forbidden? Must be silenced on the grounds it is, bigoted, racist, Islamophobic, or insert your own favourite buzzword here now. Thread 1/13

So after a news cycle of seemingly never-ending Boris bashing by all of the major UK TV stations over a joke made at the expense of a religion, whose adherents we are constantly informed by the same TV stations are all peaceful and not suffering from mental health issues. 2/13

Or in the case of the suicide bombers “we may never know their true motivation” even when this is in fact not the case, fortunately no-one was killed this time, which makes a very refreshing change, but that appears to have been more down to luck than anything else. 3/13