Bombing in Boston today, two dead, at least 20 injured.

[bryan_kilco]

No trees in the first photo

!!

 

[kass]

Yeah, those are different locations.

Maybe they both came from each of the two bomb sites

 

[Sloan]

I think the one tree that would show up in the first photo is obscured by people and the news text. the problem is that the blast came from behind the people, not the front.

Here is the 4chan imgur thing where they are/were trying to track down a possible suspect.

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

 

[Sloan]

They have a suspect in custody, not much detail.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fbi-appeals-help-solving-marathon-bombings

 

[Sloan]

headcam footage of first explosion

 

[Jind]

They have a suspect in custody, not much detail.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fbi-appeals-help-solving-marathon-bombings

They have called that a false report and the networks have rolled that statement back. The only thing that seems somewhat confirmed is they have video from the Lord & Taylor store cameras from across the street of someone placing a bag on the ground at one of the bomb sites.

Whether they can make out a face or not is something else entirely, but as one story I read noted that if they have a good image then they can use that as a basis to search for on all the other footage from the surrounding area and possibly see where that person went/came from afterwards or before - things such as T stations and such.

 

[Sloan]

Ugh, modern news. Post a story to be first or whatever and then don't check your source!

 

[bryan_kilco]

Yeah, those are different locations.

Maybe they both came from each of the two bomb sites

Don't know about that. Take note of the brown/tan/brick building to the top right, as well as the sewer grate (which is mostly covered by the runners leg/foot in first photo).

 

[kass]

I think the one tree that would show up in the first photo is obscured by people and the news text. the problem is that the blast came from behind the people, not the front.

Here is the 4chan imgur thing where they are/were trying to track down a possible suspect.

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

Yeah you're right. I see the tree now.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

All I get from this is that there are always going to be crazy fuck people who enjoy the attention of the news media. I imagine this shit wouldn't happen nearly as much if the media didn't jump all over it for days spreading fear and making the perpetrator infamous.

Enjoy your lives dudes because people suck and you never know when shit could go bad.

 

[kass]

All I get from this is that there are always going to be crazy fuck people who enjoy the attention of the news media. I imagine this shit wouldn't happen nearly as much if the media didn't jump all over it for days spreading fear and making the perpetrator infamous.

Enjoy your lives dudes because people suck and you never know when shit could go bad.

Its always popular to blame the media, but unless they are willfully dishonest, I don't.

They are in the ratings business. That is what they show because that is what "we" want.

 

[UncleBob]

All I get from this is that there are always going to be crazy fuck people who enjoy the attention of the news media. I imagine this shit wouldn't happen nearly as much if the media didn't jump all over it for days spreading fear and making the perpetrator infamous.

Enjoy your lives dudes because people suck and you never know when shit could go bad.

This shit DOES happen a lot, it's just that the media only go apeshit over it when it happens in America (fuck yeah), when it happens elsewhere you don't hear a peep........ESPECIALLY when you-know-who were the ones doing the bombing.

 

[John_C]

Its always popular to blame the media, but unless they are willfully dishonest, I don't.

They are in the ratings business. That is what they show because that is what "we" want.

This denies the effect of what we're given on what we want in the future. Heroin dealers aren't just supplying to satisfy a need, they wilfully feed it knowing it will grow.
Same with the media, supermarkets etc...

edit: however, you are right that we are the ones with the power. A united populous effort can bring down any entity that relies on it's demand (in the absence of a monopoly).

 

[Jind]

edit: however, you are right that we are the ones with the power. A united populous effort can bring down any entity that relies on it's demand (in the absence of a monopoly).

24 hour news has brought out the worst in journalism - if what a large portion of what we call journalism really is what we once thought it meant as far as putting the work in to get it right. Combine 24 hour news with bloggers (who simply farm the internet for their "sourcing" and simply spin what they find to whatever their ideology or interests are,

You really have to work to be a truly informed and intelligent consumer of news. You have to be what was once the role of the journalist - you need to source check the information you consume, you need to question what sounds fishy or too convenient on the surface and dig deeper with more than single sources for all your news.

Before the rise of the internet and 24 hour a day news outlets, news divisions were never worried about turning a profit, they were the divisions that were left to their own to do what news organizations are suppose to do - to dig deep and report. Now with news intertwined with entertainment divisions and profitability and ratings driving the "be first" mentality combined with the "be overly dramatic", "shock and awe" style of reporting we now call news it's no wonder why vast portions of our populations with their belief in these unreal, reality shows, now put out as factual lives, have created addled brain news consumers who single source all the knowledge of their lives either through FOX, or MSNBC, or CNN.

There is nothing wrong with watching the news, but do a little work as a consumer to seek deeper than just the "shocking" or "titillating" "headline and then regurgitating it to your friends as fact - thus continuing the dumbing down of a populace.

 

[lanky noob]

Last night I saw something on the news, apparently a letter addressed to obama was intercepted and found to have ricin (or however you spell it, some sort of nasty poison) all over it.

I smell a possible connection.

 

[~BURNY~]

I smell a possible connection.

Thank you Sherlock.

 

[Jind]

Last night I saw something on the news, apparently a letter addressed to obama was intercepted and found to have ricin (or however you spell it, some sort of nasty poison) all over it.

I smell a possible connection.

Seriously? Your making that jump from "I saw something on the news..."it must be linked to the Ricin-laced letters that were sent to the President as well as a Senator?

They arrested the guy named Paul Kevin Curtis (the letters were signed K.C.) from Corinth, Mississippi. He's an Elvis impersonator for Christ sake.

Among their ranks may now be Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, Miss., whom a local newspaper describes as a celebrity impersonator of everyone from Johnny Cash to Prince to Bobby Chesney. He appears to be the same Curtis who claimed, in a comment under this article on an Elvis website, to have gone “undercover” to expose corruption in Elvis impersonation contests. The comment suggests that its author may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer: “Consumer-reports mag published article last year stating Mississippi as the most corrupt state in all 52 states in the U.S. so go figure!” How Curtis might have acquired ricin, and whether his letters contained more than harmless trace elements, isn’t known.

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/1...ry-of-domestic-ricin-terrorism/#ixzz2Qogk0CTN

Do you think it will be Elvis they find on that videotape from the surveillance cameras from the bombing in Boston? Really?

 

[John_C]

Do you think it will be Elvis they find on that videotape from the surveillance cameras from the bombing in Boston? Really?

But but but but it could be! You just need to stop being so closed minded

 

[Jind]

24 hour news has brought out the worst in journalism - if what a large portion of what we call journalism really is what we once thought it meant as far as putting the work in to get it right. Combine 24 hour news with bloggers (who simply farm the internet for their "sourcing" and simply spin what they find to whatever their ideology or interests are,

You really have to work to be a truly informed and intelligent consumer of news. You have to be what was once the role of the journalist - you need to source check the information you consume, you need to question what sounds fishy or too convenient on the surface and dig deeper with more than single sources for all your news.

Before the rise of the internet and 24 hour a day news outlets, news divisions were never worried about turning a profit, they were the divisions that were left to their own to do what news organizations are suppose to do - to dig deep and report. Now with news intertwined with entertainment divisions and profitability and ratings driving the "be first" mentality combined with the "be overly dramatic", "shock and awe" style of reporting we now call news it's no wonder why vast portions of our populations with their belief in these unreal, reality shows, now put out as factual lives, have created addled brain news consumers who single source all the knowledge of their lives either through FOX, or MSNBC, or CNN.

There is nothing wrong with watching the news, but do a little work as a consumer to seek deeper than just the "shocking" or "titillating" "headline and then regurgitating it to your friends as fact - thus continuing the dumbing down of a populace.

Jon Stewart is making my point!!!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/480318

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Its always popular to blame the media, but unless they are willfully dishonest, I don't.

They are in the ratings business. That is what they show because that is what "we" want.

It's popular to blame the media because lately they have been completely shitty at reporting in general. The Newtown story was botched to death.