[freeperfromnj]

Why is the NYT soft peddling this story?

I've been wondering why the entire media has been soft peddling this story. Now that the second plane has been confirmed to have explosive residue in the wreckage the media seems to be picking the story up. It was a no-brainer from the first report that two planes dropped from the radar simultaneously. Again, people here in the U.S. see it as their problem - it didn't happen here. Well, if it happened there we can be sure they are still fixated aviation attacks and it's just a matter of time before they slip through our system.

[Uncle Hal]

I agree with you. I am surprised by how little press this story received in the US Media. It was obvious from the beginning it was a terrorist plot. The planes took off from the same airport and each crashed within an hour of each other. What are the odds of something like that happening by accident? The answer is one in a million at best.

[VOA]

I've been wondering why the entire media has been soft peddling this story.

Because the atheist journalists might remember they have to fly on occasion.

Maybe they think that not reporting this as terrorist acts will
discourage other Islamic delinquents from blowing up more jets.

Of course, they may have been hoping that they could find some angle to pin
the deed on Serbs/Slavic terrorists.

(e.g., the conversion of Islamic terrorists in the book "The Sum of All Fears" to
non-Islamics in the movie version)