Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

steve s said:
Fox made the same blunder, as did the AP.

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And the Boston Globe.

Confusion reigned for about an hour this afternoon as news organizations reported, based on sources, that a suspect was in custody or under arrest, and the reports were contradicted by official statements from law enforcement.

The Associated Press first reported at about 2 p.m. that a suspect had been “taken into custody” and was “expected in federal court” on the South Boston waterfront. AP did not name the source of the information. CNN followed with a tweet saying “arrest made” in the case.

The Globe later posted a story saying that a suspect was in custody. That information was attributed to an official with knowledge of the case.

As the US attorney’s office, FBI, and Boston police publicly disputed the reports, CNN backed off its story at 3:14 p.m., quoting a law enforcement official saying “significant progress” had been made. The AP tweeted and the Globe published the public denials of initial reports.
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/2013/04/...on-bombings/UiktKly60y4m8UVHeNu8NP/story.html

I wonder how exactly this all happened.
 
For many hours it's been reported that authorities have images of the suspect. They are choosing not to release these to the public? They don't want that?
 
BenBurch said:
The demoed a system at the first Obama inauguration that took a gigapixel picture of the crowd in which you could see faces way back at the back of the crowd no problem. One of those taking sequences of pictures of large public events would be a great idea.
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I've mentioned it to an engineer friend of mine, and he said some places use them, but they're not widely used due to their cost.

I'd like to see the used more often. How invaluable of a tool would this be....
 
They must have their own reasons, but I think the authorities postponing and then canceling scheduled news conferences, and not issuing official announcements--even general ones--of where they are in the investigation is partly what is feeding all the confusion.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Except that isn't the only image and they lose the bags later. One of them also looks like the injured guy fleeing the scene.

I will mention there are other reasons one guy would run while no one else did.
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Some of the photos of those 2 guys appear to be after the explosion and they still have their bags.
 
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AdMan said:
They must have their own reasons, but I think the authorities postponing and then canceling scheduled news conferences, and not issuing official announcements--even general ones--of where they are in the investigation is partly what is feeding all the confusion.
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I thought they put off the news conference because someone called in a bomb threat at the Boston Federal Courthouse an hour or two before it was scheduled.
 
I'm just wondering what the chances are that someone removed that bag next to the mailbox and replaced it with a bomb.

I should add that the "after" pictures suggest that is right where the bomb went off.
 
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Redtail said:
Oh hell yeah. The really bad part was them trying to weasle out of/justify it. If they had just said "whoops! That's what happens when you rush to air a story without wait ing for conformation" it likely would've died quickly.
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God,yes. I was having lunch on a Chinese Restaurant when they were trying to weasle out of it. It was funny and pathetic at the same time.
And CNN is being blasted nearly as much for their reaction to the screw up as they are for the screw up itself.
They looked as a bunch of arrogant jerks who cannot bear to admit they scrwed up. ANd that might be just that.
 
MattusMaximus said:
*facepalm*

Is there ANYBODY in the "news" world who hasn't gotten caught up in this stupid race of getting it first vs. getting it right?!

ETA: I hope the Daily Show and other comedy outlets have a field day raking the media over the coals for this idiocy.
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Oh,they will with CNN taking the most of the heat as well they should since CNN was the first to report it,and the fault with not doing a through check is theirs......
 
William Parcher said:
For many hours it's been reported that authorities have images of the suspect. They are choosing not to release these to the public? They don't want that?
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Oh, tipping off the suspect that you know what he look like is something they want to do........
 
dudalb said:
Oh, tipping off the suspect that you know what he look like is something they want to do........
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He's already been tipped off. They said they have his pictures.

Oh well maybe he's hoping they spotted somebody else. But he shouldn't gamble on that. He should escape now while the country doesn't yet know what he looks like. The moment his picture is posted worldwide he can't go anywhere very easily.
 
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