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Old 04-20-2013, 12:27 PM   #378
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So much speculation by people that don't have the facts.

It was sickening to watch the news coverage these last few days. I'm going to give you a few examples of how poor a job our news reporters are doing these days. Add to that the speculation on the interwebs, and it's just sad.

1) Social Media sites published pictures and names of people who were then persecuted because kids on the internet don't know how to check facts and want to become detectives.

2) I watched Wolf Blitzer yesterday have a reporter tell him what was going on, and EVERY time he would imply something else.
Example-
Reporter: 1 Grenade and 5 pipe bombs were thrown from the car. 3 pipe bombs didn't explode.
Blitzer: So, the police following the car were injured by the pipe bombs?
Reporter: No, 1 grenade & 5 pipe boms were thrown from the car. 3 pipe bombs didn't explode.

Reporter: So police are saying that Suspect 1 got out of the car, then was run over by his brother. They transported him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead
Blitzer: So Suspect 2 killed Suspect 1 by running him over with the car?
Reporter: No, (repeats what he said the first time)

3) Then you get the conspiracy theorists who just confuse the issue with nonsense.

We should be focusing on the victims of the bombing, and I hope that most of you didn't spend the entire time in front of the TV watching this.

The stuff I just posted was from the few short periods of time when I was just trying to get an update on what was happening.
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