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

[Tom Hansen]

I, too, do not rely on merely one or two sources.

Once I am exposed to a news item of interest, I verify it via three or four televised news sources (usually CNN, NBC, and CBS/ABC) AND I google the news item, pulling info from two or three online news sites, especially a local newspaper (i.e. the Boston Globe concerning the Boston bombings).

Once the info has been accumulated from the above sources, I look for facts common to most if not all sources.

This is evident in almost all of my news postings, with the exception of Palouse news items, in school case my sources are fairly restricted (the Daily News, the Spokesman-Review, and the Coeur d'Alene Press).

Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 

On Apr 15, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 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/35343/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-captured-but-no-details-yet
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>> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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