A pair of explosions rocks the finish line at the Boston Marathon, injuring at least a half-dozen people.

just want to post this onion article

http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-is-a-tragedydoes-it-really-matter-exactly-how,32076/

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Yesterday’s violent attack at the Boston Marathon has left all of us struggling to come to terms with such a senseless display of carnage. In the wake of this devastating tragedy, we at the New York Post join the nation in mourning those who were lost in this horrible event so that we may console one another and ultimately emerge from this catastrophe stronger and with a greater compassion for one another.

And so, as we attempt to begin the healing process, let us not bicker over such trivial matters as the actual death toll and what exactly happened at yesterday’s bombing. After all, is it really important, in the aftermath of an event so disastrous and sad, to pick apart the so-called information surrounding this horrific situation and find out what actually happened?

To think, these poor victims have not even been buried yet, and some people out there are already quibbling over little details like how many people have died or what the basic facts of this tragedy even are. Can’t they see it’s not the time for that discussion? After all, when something awful like this happens, you’re not thinking about getting the facts right, or adhering to the basic standards of reporting, or providing people with the correct information they desperately need in a time of crisis, or respecting the families of those involved, or treating human life itself as sacred, or acting like professionals, or thinking about anything other than the amount of page views your story will attract on the internet. You’re not thinking about any of that stuff, at least I’m not. To dwell on all that stuff would just be crass.

And yet people have this obsessive need to get bogged down in all the teeny tiny minutiae—the precise number of dead, how many explosions there were, etc.—when we all know that these kinds of details don’t matter when you’re in the middle of a terrible emergent tragedy. Who focuses on that stuff? Not me, that’s for damned sure. All I cared about in the moment was giving our readers a vague, erroneous conception of what was happening on the ground while also beating our competitors to the punch with a more sensationalistic story featuring a drastically higher body count.

Why? Because in the midst of such an immense tragedy, that’s what truly mattered. And that’s the kind of reporting the New York Post strives for each and every day.

And yet, there are still people—literally millions of them—who actually have to ask why we didn’t simply slow down and wait until the whole story came in so that we could run an accurate, fact-checked article that didn’t exaggerate the number of dead by 9 or 10 people. To that, I say: How could you even think about accurately reporting a tragedy at a time like this? When those pipe bombs or whatever they were—I believe they were pipe bombs—went off, we weren’t wasting time making routine inquiries with law enforcement officials, or relying on the reporting of those actually on the ground, or maintaining even a tenuous grasp on the journalistic conventions of truth and integrity. We were doing what needed to be done: dashing off haphazard, poorly sourced yellow journalism that included an entirely speculative report on a Saudi national who we strongly suggested was behind the attack without a modicum of supportive evidence.

It was the right thing to do, and I’d do it again.

Yes, there are many questions being asked right now. Did the New York Post get the facts correct? Did we observe proper journalistic protocol? Did we simply pump out the most eye-catching story we could think of in a cynical, bald-faced attempt to boost web traffic? But these are simply not appropriate questions to be asking at a time like this. In fact, they were especially inappropriate when asked by one of our own reporters, who, in the midst of yesterday’s senseless mayhem, had the gall to wonder why we were running unconfirmed information from an unnamed source that wildly varied from that published in other news outlets.

Well, if that’s the type of question you want to be asking while dozens or perhaps hundreds of families are grieving over the loss of their sons and daughters, then you can go along with him to some other newspaper. Sorry, but that’s just not what the New York Post is about.

Also, an anonymous source is reporting there may be as many as 50 explosive devices still at large in the Boston metro area.

Sorry for the terrible format

Holy...

Source: /b/

looks like the basement dweller white guy type i thought did it from the jump...

Well, I'm reading reports that they have identified a suspect. Not much details yet. So we'll see in a while if 4chan had it right (I'm doubting that for some reason).

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/boston-blasts/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Interesting. It is very odd that someone would be standing around with a backpack looped over their forearm unless they were planning on dropping it or accessing it.

also, he seems to be alone.

  On 4/17/2013 at 6:39 PM, jules said:

looks like the basement dweller white guy type i thought did it from the jump...

It would make sense. Adam Lanza was supposedly an extreme recluse as well.

They have made an arrest.

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

  On 4/17/2013 at 8:43 PM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

I wouldn't be surprised if backpacks were to be prohibited at future events like these, with tightening of security.

  On 4/17/2013 at 9:13 PM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 4/17/2013 at 8:43 PM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

I wouldn't be surprised if backpacks were to be prohibited at future events like these, with tightening of security.

 

i'm not sure how realistic it is to prohibit backpacks at a 26+ mile open event, unless they cordon off the entire route and check everyone entering the area, but what a nightmare. i just can't see it happening.

  On 4/17/2013 at 9:18 PM, pattern recognition said:

 

  On 4/17/2013 at 9:13 PM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 4/17/2013 at 8:43 PM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

I wouldn't be surprised if backpacks were to be prohibited at future events like these, with tightening of security.

 

i'm not sure how realistic it is to prohibit backpacks at a 26+ mile open event, unless they cordon off the entire route and check everyone entering the area, but what a nightmare. i just can't see it happening.

 

Well, I could at least see bag searches being enforced upon entering the event. Even up here in Alaska participants were subject to having their bags searched, whether it was at an aircraft demonstration or a performance, like the Mos Def concert I attended in August 2011.

stop and frisk random searches event or not

  On 4/17/2013 at 9:21 PM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 4/17/2013 at 9:18 PM, pattern recognition said:

 

  On 4/17/2013 at 9:13 PM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 4/17/2013 at 8:43 PM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

I wouldn't be surprised if backpacks were to be prohibited at future events like these, with tightening of security.

 

i'm not sure how realistic it is to prohibit backpacks at a 26+ mile open event, unless they cordon off the entire route and check everyone entering the area, but what a nightmare. i just can't see it happening.

 

Well, I could at least see bag searches being enforced upon entering the event. Even up here in Alaska participants were subject to having their bags searched, whether it was at an aircraft demonstration or a performance, like the Mos Def concert I attended in August 2011.

 

i agree that most events these days they do check bags, but marathons are so different, so open. it's virtually impossible to contain, short of moving it inside to a track, or making the course wind around in circles in a city, and most of these events have had the same course for years, they're tradition, especially the boston marathon. i know the l.a. marathon begins at dodger stadium and finishes in santa monica. that's a massive amount of space to lock down.

  On 4/17/2013 at 9:32 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

stop and frisk random searches event or not

I could maybe be convinced that things like this would be acceptable if it were properly defined and outlined, but I would want other liberties currently being encroached upon to be corrected.

do some research on michael chertoff. he did it.media lies to people.

  On 4/17/2013 at 10:47 PM, chunky said:

do some research on michael chertoff. he did it.media lies to people.

I'm very curious as to why you think this guy chertoff was responsible.

Somewhat unrelated, but how/why was Compson banned?

word is he raped a feminist islamofascist liberal girl on camera and put the video in the gender issues thread

  On 4/17/2013 at 6:39 PM, jules said:

looks like the basement dweller white guy type i thought did it from the jump...

of course you did

  On 4/17/2013 at 10:49 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 4/17/2013 at 10:47 PM, chunky said:

do some research on michael chertoff. he did it.media lies to people.

I'm very curious as to why you think this guy chertoff was responsible.

 

hes a republican limpy, what more reason do you need?

  On 4/15/2013 at 11:33 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

well, it certainly falls under "terrorism", but al qaeda? n. korea? just a few fucked individuals? who knows. Ive heard a few suggest it might even be a right-wing extremist group. it's pretty sickening altogether.

  On 4/17/2013 at 4:12 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

can we not talk about politicization of the events if possible? i was hoping to hear more thoughts on the update and investigation.

indeed.

lets not politicize this guise

(but we all know it was disgruntled wacko tea party type who did it amirite)

I was shocked to see the bomb details being publicized out there so casually, the media is pretty much asking for copycats.

  On 4/17/2013 at 10:49 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 4/17/2013 at 10:47 PM, chunky said:

do some research on michael chertoff. he did it.media lies to people.

 

I'm very curious as to why you think this guy chertoff was responsible.

 

because he's a jew. the guy (chunky) made a thread earlier today consisting of a bunch of ugly pictures portraying chertoff and his "jewish crew". gladly, it was deleted.

republican? hahaha. im more like a monarchist who understands what began in 1914.

i tried to explain about michael chertoff but the thread was deleted. please look him up. dont expect people to agree but it would be cool if more people took an interest in what this crazy man is doing with his power.hes similar to the neocons who did the iraq war, basically a lying maniac.

i would only use the term false flag if i believed that obama was in on it. i dont believe he is. this is a power grab by homeland security people. their first interest is to a greater israel and likud. they dont care about american people. only finding false reasons to put their opponents in prison. usa is transforming itself into a real tyranny in the style of stalin or henry viii

tsa,fema camps,terroist bombs,patriot act~nasty nasty nasty stuff. it feels like we're getting closer to our trojan horse moment where the gates are opened and our muderers complete their long held intention to exterminate us.

  On 4/17/2013 at 11:31 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

Somewhat unrelated, but how/why was Compson banned?

Everybody got tired of all his Wikipedia links and quote boxes and propaganda shit He posted a video of a rape in the revived gender discussion thread.

......aaaaaaaaaaaaand on what evidence do you base all this?