Explosion during Boston Marathon (non-political discussion)

• chicago510

  

  John King should stick to this:
  
  
• gut

  Like a giant frickin game of "Where's Waldo"
• chicago510

  

  Lulz:
  
  http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/210660/confusion-reigns-in-reporting-of-boston-arrest/
• gut

  Second Ricin envelope found, this one addressed to Obama.
  
  Someone just taking advantage of this incident? I don't know, Ricin apparently may not be hard to make but wouldn't think it's something you have just laying around.
  
  No chatter and no group taking credit for any of this - if it's foreign that's a very scary development
• Pick6

  

  Fly4Fun;1427506 wrote:Yes, all muslims in the Middle East hate America...

  That isnt what he said at all, but a large majority do. Mostly because of Bush.
• wildcats20

  

  Pick6;1427523 wrote:That isnt what he said at all, but a large majority do. Mostly because of Bush.

  
  It's exactly what he said.
• karen lotz

  

  gut;1427522 wrote:Second Ricin envelope found, this one addressed to Obama.
  
  Someone just taking advantage of this incident? I don't know, Ricin apparently may not be hard to make but wouldn't think it's something you have just laying around.
  
  No chatter and no group taking credit for any of this - if it's foreign that's a very scary development

  
  Where is Walter White?
  
  
  Maybe it will turn out to be from a Lily of the Valley instead of Ricin.
• Heretic

  

  gut;1427522 wrote:Second Ricin envelope found, this one addressed to Obama.
  
  Someone just taking advantage of this incident? I don't know, Ricin apparently may not be hard to make but wouldn't think it's something you have just laying around.
  
  No chatter and no group taking credit for any of this - if it's foreign that's a very scary development

  You're right about that. Usually when anything like this happens, there's a few groups jumping over themselves to be first to take credit for it (kind of like a macabre version of our media trying to be first to give information, regardless of accuracy). If things are happening and no one is pounding their chest over them, we might be dealing with true serious business stuff -- with people/an organization who are looking to get serious long-lasting results, rather than just make a quick impact that leads to our military blasting the fuck out of some country or another.
• Crimson streak

  

  Weren't there people in the streets burning American flags and celebrating after 9/11?
• Pick6

  

  wildcats20;1427524 wrote:It's exactly what he said.

  Sorry. Missed the all in front of Muslims. Still and obvious exaggeration.
• wildcats20

  

  Boston Globe just tweeted that the Federal Court and Brigham and Women's Hospital are being evacuated.
• gorocks99

  

  Federal courthouse in Boston has been evacuated. Unsure if it's connected to the "suspect" or what
• Fly4Fun

  

  Dub Pool@dubpool
  
  Dear news media: Yelling "First!" is a blog comment clown move. Stop it. #wheresthejournalism?
  
  
  This was probably my favorite tweet. But it's true.
• gut

  wildcats20;1427530 wrote:Boston Globe just tweeted that the Federal Court and Brigham and Women's Hospital are being evacuated.

  I'm starting to think "news" organizations are just watching twitter and then rushing a half-arse verification to report it.
• gorocks99

  

  gut;1427533 wrote:I'm starting to think "news" organizations are just watching twitter and then rushing a half-arse verification to report it.

  There's live video of the evacuation at the courthouse, so that one is definitely happening.
  
  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/522594
• TedSheckler

  

  They just moved the people on the sidewalk of the courthouse to the other side of the street.
• chicago510

  

  I assume these evacuations are real? I don't even know who to trust.
• wildcats20

  

  The hospital was given the all clear. Locked car at valet with gas cans in back.
• gut

  chicago510;1427537 wrote:I assume these evacuations are real? I don't even know who to trust.

  Probably, but could be a fake threat or just precaution over an unknown package.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  From now on, until it is from a Government official directly at a press conference , I am not believing anything reported.
  What a fail from our media.
• tk421

  

  News conference scheduled for 5pm EST. Until then, don't believe anything you hear from media.
• gut

  I'd like to see the FBI command center for this. The amount of camera and video footage they are reviewing has to be just awesome.
• Fly4Fun

  

  tk421;1427545 wrote:News conference scheduled for 5pm EST. Until then, don't believe anything you hear from media.

  I think this is a very sad commentary on what thew "news/media" has become. It used to be that the freedom of speech was important to provide balance and a voice outside of the government. But they are all squandering good faith that people used to have in the reliability of their reports.
• gut

  Sounds like the Ricin deal is a "known" person in so far as he's a nut that has sent threatening letters in the past.
  
  And the letters were mailed like April 7th / April 8th but takes about a week for govt mail to get thru the central screening depot.
• gut

  Fly4Fun;1427553 wrote:I think this is a very sad commentary on what thew "news/media" has become.

  Mistakes being made in this reporting would have been career-enders 20+ years ago. Unbiased and accurate - the wasn't just a gold standard it was the only standard.