Podcast 512

Orlando Terror Attack. Another terror attack on US soil. This one, the largest death toll in a mass shooting in 'US History', gets the attacker's name in lights, until the next attack that 'breaks the record'. We now call it the Orlando Terror Attack. Or just 'Orlando', for short. I ask myself, how should podcasters cover this? Radio and TV stations called their A-Teams in on Sunday morning to do round robin coverage, spitting out facts and interviewing the usual experts and political prognosticators, all in hushed tones. On the cable news networks, and broadcast networks, it was all presented over video loops of SWAT Teams walking around with nothing to do, cop cars with their lights flashing, the anguish of victims and witnesses, and ambulances hauling away the dead, the dying and the critically wounded. From a podcast perspective, we don't need to do this. Yet this is one of those topics that is unavoidable. A big story. Then the recriminations and lamentations. The demands for change and action throughout the political spectrum. Of course this attack - because the target was a gay nightclub - has something for everyone to be outraged about. Isn't that the essence of terror as a weapons system; To divide and conquer? To bust open the old wounds and scar tissue, to make sure we never unite against a common threat? To provokeTexas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick to say "men reap what they sow", or politicians on the other end of the spectrum to demand that 'sensible' gun control legislation be passed. (Editor's note: It seems to me this kind of thing would make people want to own guns in order to protect themselves, since clearly the government with all its power isn't protecting us.) What would you have them do? Everyone has their list of solutions from bomb them back to the stone age - didn't we already do that? - to seal the borders and only let 'ethnic Americans' in. How do we do that? The problem is, in the clear light of day, these 'solutions' are really j