They're looking to attract young people who are amped up on violence and who see this group going even further than al-Qaeda did.

The latest video from ISIS is a viral ad directed at the sociopath demographic.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

Also going viral? The measles.

You ask any mother in the autism community.

We'll take the flu, the measles, over autism any freaking day of the week.

So I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.

And remember the nightmarish photos from Abu Ghraib?

There are thousands more the government is withholding for fear it claims of violent repercussions.

There's something extremely disturbing about the idea that our government should be able to use the prospect of violence overseas in order to suppress evidence of its own misconduct.

All that and a sincere apology after this.

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

Brooke Gladstone is away this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

Pounding by bombers and a push by Kurdish forces,

ISIS militants this week were at last driven out of the Syrian city of Kobani.

ISIS was not, however, driven out of the realms of fear and revulsion.

A newly released video showing a Jordanian pilot held hostage since December, caged and then burned alive.

A highly produced ISIS video depicting the burning alive of Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasazbi horrified the world, somehow eclipsing the now-familiar

on-camera beheadings that have propelled the jihadi fanatics into global infamy.

Some commentators have surmised that the propaganda may have finally turned on the propagandists,

but not necessarily.

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