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Increasing media concentration, with its selectiveness of actions that can be both seen and shown, is sweeping investigative journalism away and paradoxically strengthening terrorism and populism instead of decoding their mechanisms. The elective affinities of terrorism, populism, and the media appear through entrepreneurial methods that encourage identification with a “master.” Responses to this kind of utilitarian nostalgia, which develops by way of the shift from “community” to “society,” cannot rely on security policies alone.