True, I am definitely referring to US news. Fox is an easy target, but all outlets are guilty, really. For example, Fox's reporting on the London attack was largely a report on 'fear' -- how citizens would cope emotionally, how they would change their routines, how their fragility was comparable to ours on 9/11. And of course, there was plenty of emphasis, none grounded in fact, on how this may mean another attack on the US. Fox afforded me the ridiculous sight of bomb-sniffing dogs stationed at, of all places, ground zero. This is our response to our raised 'terror level' from yellow to orange, whatever the fuck that means, almost eight hours after the London attacks. It's all so hollow and reactionary, and it is a shadowplay of fear disguised at preparation.
Additionally, and most tasteless of all, was a news piece (Fox again?) in which reporters took to the streets to inform British tourists who hadn't heard about the attacks. That's the media eagerly being the bearer of bad tidings, literally spreading fear personally, to people's faces, not in the interest of bringing information to the public but of bringing candid, devastating emotional reaction to a fear-fed public.