[Vision2020] No suspect in Boston Marathon bombings today. The NY Post relying upon inaccurate information

[Paul Rumelhart]

Just to ward off any angry retorts, I'm not saying this to you 
personally, I'm just giving some unsolicited advice to anyone that cares 
to listen.  Your post just reminded me of this.

In times like these, I highly recommend turning the boob tube off.  It's 
the wrong medium for these kinds of events.  The main reason being that 
they have to fill the airwaves with *something*, and if they only have 
one or two juicy facts, that's what they are going to chew on 
continually like a piece of gristle.  If you flip between stations, 
you'll see the same two or three facts being chewed on by different 
commentators.    If you are at all conspiracy minded, you'll also miss 
whatever "narrative" that station has chosen upon which to arrange their 
scant pieces of information.

Instead, I recommend finding a nice meta news site on the internet that 
you can use to get a wide perspective.  I personally have a circle on 
Google+ that contains many different news sites, but there are many 
other choices.  Even just a quick search on Google News works.  The 
advantage is that you can soak up those scant pieces of information 
quickly, without the god-awful spoken bits being played over-and-over ad 
nauseum.  You can skim articles for new facts quickly, and you can even 
get an idea of who is copying from whom as the same words, sometimes 
verbatim, are being seen from news site to news site.  As an added 
bonus, on many sites you can read user comments which vary from horrible 
to insightful in their quality.  You sometimes find out that others have 
some interesting ideas, most of which you won't see on broadcast TV. 
While there are plenty of the worst that humanity can offer in these 
comments, there are a lot of comments that deserve extra scrutiny.

Anyway, just a thought.  If I never spend hours again watching the same 
TV news station and the same video clips over and over and over, I'll be 
a happy man.

Paul

On 04/15/2013 03:57 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:
> False speculation seems inevitable in the rush to get the first 
> headlines out by so called journalists more concerned with ratings 
> than the truth:
> *UPDATE: No suspect has been arrested in relation to the Boston 
> Marathon bombings today. The /New York Post/ appears to have been 
> **relying upon inaccurate information* 
> <http://www.policymic.com/articles/35367/boston-marathon-suspect-at-large-no-suspect-in-custody>
> http://www.policymic.com/articles/35343/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-captured-but-no-details-yet
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