Listening to the News May be Bad for Your Brain

This morning I heard over the radio a major news outlet announce: "Tomorrow at the courthouse in South Carolina there will be a demonstration against the lowering of the Confederate flag by the KKK and hate groups of all stripes. There may be a hundred demonstrators who will attend this hate event."

After hearing such a report I had a few innocent questions come to my mind: first, why would only a hundred demonstrators make worthy the major story of the day? Second, that those who think the lowering of the Confederate flag was not a victory against hate but a defeat for southern self determination must prove themselves by the fact itself to be members of the KKK or at the least haters? Third, with all the hate talk going around why is 'hate' left unmentioned as the catalyst in the case of a person of Islamic persuasion killing four marines? Could it be, by any chance, that the media is manipulating our minds, and if they are what motive might they have?