Except that these males, supposedly mostly from Syria, are leaving their war torn countries and their female family members behind in their war torn countries? Not likely, unless they have some total bitch wives.
The media is misleading everybody on everything here, unquestionably. Why?[/QUOTE]
This is hardly an exhaustive list but here are some answers (in no particular order):
1. Long term political interest: the migrants, and their immediate descendants, in Europe tend to vote for the leftist parties. The big media in Europe often leans left-liberal. This is overwhelmingly true of the German media, often true of the British, and even the BBC - which is supposed to be neutral, and CNN in Europe. The performance of CNN has been beneath all criticism and downright entirely misleading in covering this story.
2. Long term economic interest: the big media are a part of the club of big international corporations in Europe. They - as big corporations often do - see the migrants as a source cheap labor. The total cost to the various European countries is a different matter. Nevertheless, from their own perspective and for their own needs, big corporations often see the immigrants as advantageous. These corporations have enormous influence in Brussels and on the media. Brussels, for anyone looking closely, has become center for failed politicians from all over Europe, many with leftist sympathies, and big multinational corporations and their lobbyists. There is not much left of the old European left. They have retained the appeal of leftist idealism (especially for those not looking too closely, or deliberately looking away), while being in bed day and night with the corporate world, from which they are claiming to be trying to protect the ordinary citizen. Brussels is a kind of poster child for this development. And the media serves as the public relations branch: complete with bought and paid for articles and stories to advance certain interests.
3. Hysteria sells. More people respond to emotional stimuli in the media than to rational arguments or to accurate information. Hence, the doling out of the story in such a way - and only in that way - to appeal almost entirely to the emotions of people, who actually know little and understand less of the serious and complex problems and issues involved, people who can be very easily manipulated by images evoking strong emotional responses. The result: focus on families with children and on "Syrians", who definitely are from a war torn country and ignoring the apparently significant numbers from Bangladesh, Turkey, and Pakistan, who are not. And ignoring, or burying deep down, the reporting of most other aspects of the story.
4. Genuine humanitarian impulse. Some of these people truly are from Syria and are escaping from a war-torn country. They definitely deserve asylum and support. It's right for the media to call attention to tham. Unfortunately, the true refugees and the true political asylum seekers are - for the moment - hopelessly entangled with an unknown number of others who are not. These others are probably some combination of economic migrants and potentially dangerous people linked to terrorist organizations. The media is downplaying this because it would interfere with the selling of the events simply as a feel good humanitarian story. Unfortunately, the liberal-left media's one-sided hystericization of the issues obstructs the ability of people to think clearly and develop effective answers to serious long term problems. Very soon, we will have elections in some of the most affected countries - IIRC Austria, Croatia and Romania - and we will see how voters actually respond.
