Posted on 04/19/2013 4:50:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It started with the false claim that a Saudi man was a suspect (he was actually a victim), something the networks ran with (including the rumour that he had been thrown into a cage) and were then forced to retract. Then there was a second “attack” at the JFK library that turned out to be an unrelated fire. Pundits weighed in uselessly, calling for the deaths of all Muslims in the world on Twitter or else somehow laying responsibility at the feet of the otherwise peaceful and democratic Tea Party (was Sarah Palin anywhere near the scene – we have the right to know). In the words of Michael Moynihan, “Three days in, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of who has been wrong about what.” Indeed, it’s been a screw-up of epic proportions.
But where the mainstream media missed something, social media was there to plug the gaps – accurately or otherwise. It was a Facebook user, David Green, who first posted a helpful high-res photograph of the suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev. Pictures from the siege in Watertown were later captured by ordinary Joes and put up on Youtube, only for the networks to seize and distribute them. Amateur detectives abounded. Images of the suspects released by the FBI were posted on social networking sites, allowing people to post up their own pics of folks who looked a bit like them and so track their movements. Some evil and some good came of it. Poor 17-year-old Sala Barhoum – who was entirely innocent – was fingered by Reddit readers and ended up on the front page of the New York Post as a chief suspect.....
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PATHETIC....but hey, Duval got to LOCK UP ONE MILLION PEOLE IN THEIR HOMES!!!! Pretty good TRIAL.
Want to BET that the Saudi is involved SOMEHOW??? I read that MOOCHELLE VISITED HIM IN THE HOSPITAL???? Could the Obama;s REALLY be that stupid??/ YES!!
Exactly, only what you would expect from an agenda driven media.
It is but hey they get to practice marshal law..........just saying.
Something to look out for once the Boston Bombing Story cools down.
Will any mainstream media, including the Boston Globe, ask about 500 residents of Boston/Watertown (who were shut in their homes), if their views on “gun control” were changed?
The question should be phrased as, “In light of what happened during the hunt for the Marathan bombers, and in light of existing Gun Control laws in your city/town, have your feelings about “gun control” changed?”
“If so, how have they changed?”
WAITING!!!!!
It’s actually “Martial” (Military) Law, not Marshal Law. Lot’s of people make that tiny mistake.
Marshall Law is the law school in Cleveland.
In the next breath he jumped on and slandered a Chris Cox (attorney for the NRA, iirc) for lieing about some gun legislation. Joe ripped him a new one. Brutal. Clearly slander. He remembered how he'd served in Congress with Cox and was sad Chris had gone over to the dark side, blah, blah, blah....
Someone on the TV set must have whispered that this was a different Chris Cox.
Ooops....Never mind.
Joe , you have become a POS.
I have been watching TV news, listening to radio news and reading news papers for about 60 years.
This was the worst week of “news” I have ever watched, heard or read.
Not one of the media did a single thing to tell their kids about.
I am sure “news” stories from TV, Radio & print will be taught in future Journalism schools as what not to do.
In a word, they SUCKED. Big time.
A main stream media mimicking internet bloggers rather than leading and behaving as the "Record of the Facts." Sourcing material from internet bloggers without "confirming" with secondary reliable source. Misinformation with no recognition or apology of blatantly wrong information as internet bloggers are used to doing.
Clearly, it is obvious for some time now, secondary news sources are driving the "story line" re Salon, Huffington Post, Mediate, etc.
:-)
Plus this afternoon I was watching & listening to some live video of approx 30-40 cops milling around from several different agencies - Boston police, Watertown, MA state police, etc.... I swear at least half of them were chattering non-stop into the portable police radios, and at times laughing & yukking it up. I thought, WTH are ALL these cops talking to or talking about? I wonder if they were passing around the location of the closest Krispy Kreme donut shop, or getting instructions from their wife on what to pick up for dinner? I doubt most of them were talking about the terrorist still at large.
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