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WASHINGTON Danielle Hunter Jersey , Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama criticized the U.S. media's saturated coverage of recent terror attacks by Islamic State (IS) for whipping up the public's fear about the group's threat.


"Well, I think what's fair is that post-Paris you had a saturation of news about the horrible attack there. And ISIL combines viciousness with very savvy media operations," Obama said in an interview released Monday.


"And as a consequence, if you've been watching television for the last month, all you have been seeing, all you have been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you," Obama said in the wide-ranging interview taped Thursday with the NPR News.


ISIL is an acronym used by Obama for IS Eric Kendricks Jersey , which has claimed responsibility for the massive terror attacks on Nov. 13 in Paris, France, that killed 130 people, and a shooting attack on Dec. 2 in San Bernardino, California, which killed 14 people.


U.S. investigators believe that the married couple in the San Bernardino shooting was radicalized by IS to launch the attack.


While admitting that the media has a right to decide how to cover the news of the terror attacks because it "is pursuing ratings," Obama cautioned that the IS actions "are designed to amplify their power and threat" through such news coverage.


"That helps them recruit Trae Waynes Jersey , that adds in the twisted thoughts of some young person that they might want to carry out an action, that somehow they're part of a larger movement. And so I think that the American people absorb that, understandably are of concern," Obama said.


The U.S. president added that though the U.S. is facing a serious situation fighting IS, "what is important is for people to recognize that the power, the strength of the United States and its allies are not threatened by an organization like this."


He took the terror group al-Qaida as an example, saying that it could not do catastrophic damage to the U.S. now although there are still lingering