As late as last night, Fox News was reporting that law enforcement was seeking to identify these two guys and was passing around a photo of these two guys to other LEO (Fox News described them, did not show the photo).
I don’t know when the Late City Final was printed, but how do you know that when it was printed The Post knew these guys had been cleared by investigators? It may be true that the Post should be faulted for not updating and correcting sooner.
This Deadspin article engages in a logical fallacy, put forward in smarmy and condescending fashion, that if someone runs track they ipso facto cannot be a culprit. Huh? These guys may not be the bombers, but the reason would be because the evidence showed they did not plant the bombs, not just because they ran track.
Meanwhile, that Fox News may have been reporting the same thing "[a]s late as last night" doesn't lend any support to the Post's "journalistic" judgment. Such a claim, it seems to me, is itself a logical fallacy; Fox News appears to have been a behind-the-curve on this as the Post.
For what it's worth, that these two guys weren't considered by law enforcement to be connected is something I read yesterday, long before "as late as last night."
I think the big issue is LEO agencies are saying this isn’t even the picture they are passing around for people they want to talk to. Post had someone send them a picture claiming it was photo being passed around, didn’t bother to wait for confirmation and ran with it. 12 dead suspect under arrest indeed.
It had to have been printed last night, their picture is on the cover of the paper today. Local papers here seem to print round 10pm, but that is my guess.