There are versions of terror that seem like it's easy for us to have conversations about

and ones where it's hard to have conversations about.

In other words, talking about Paris is easy.

Talking about Nigeria, not so much.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Also, in the aftermath of attacks in the name of Islam,

how can Muslim leaders effectively respond?

I don't think that we Muslims can have an honest discussion

if we're going to be dismissive of the theological basis for obvious atrocities.

Plus, the British TV show Black Mirror spins our technological society into dystopian fantasy.

We are now living in an age where miraculous things actually seem to happen.

It felt like very fertile territory for quite a paranoid and worried show.

There's more coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Last Wednesday, two brothers forced their way into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, murdering 12 people and later five more, before the brothers and a third

accomplice were killed by authorities. Local and international news media broadcast the hostage

situations and their bloody conclusion live across the world.

Cell phone videos from eyewitnesses went viral.

But four days before that, on Saturday, January 3rd, another group of terrorists

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