"Why would they display an actual suicide bombing?"
What would the effect be on the economy? Attendance at large gatherings, football, baseball, etc.?
What would the reaction of the American people be?
There are many reasons to downplay an actual suicide bombing here.
That is not my sentence.
My actual statement, "Why would they censor an actual suicide bombing, if related to Islamic terrorists, and resist the urge to pile on Bush and Iraq?".
I am not speaking of downplaying it in the short term. Folks are insinuating the MSM would willingly engage in a coverup long term and I don't buy it. Bush hatred is too great to not try to spin it, sympathies to terrorists aside.
Most are looking for 9/11 scale attacks, but I think suicide bombings with 1-3 people in a school/mall/church will probably become the norm. Cheap and psychologically devastating. Hope I'm wrong.
Specially if there have been received threats of more stadium bombings - that would explain the blackout.
'Still under investigation'.
Until the terrorists up the ante and commit more, and it becomes obvious and can no longer be downplayed.