Is Lack Of Big Media Coverage Of Oklahoma Explosion OK?
CBS is reporting...
Has there been more happening at the University of Oklahoma than hazing and all-nighters? The blogosphere, led by Michelle Malkin, has been chronicling the suspicious explosion at the University of Oklahoma just over a week ago, and wondering why the big media doesn’t appear interested.
According to most reports, Joel Hinrichs III was a young man with a history of depression who used a homemade explosive device to commit suicide just 100 yards or so from the school’s football stadium, which was filled with over 80,000 people at the time. Officials were quick to call the incident a suicide, but rumors and reports of Hinrichs’ attempts to buy large quantities of ammonium nitrate and ties to the Muslim community have raised a lot of questions and the answers thus far are not forthcoming.
Many, Malkin included, have wondered where the MSM is on this story. As the Oklahoma Daily editorial notes, local television has covered it and a quick Google search turns up (sometimes conflicting) reports in local and regional newspapers but no major media outlets appear to have picked up the story yet. We asked CBS News national editor Bill Felling, who told us the network is looking into the story. Let’s hope so, it’s one worth airing, whatever the facts
Check out this fun little link on the O.U. Suicide Bomber.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 9:28 AM
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Just goes to show you that you can't let the mainstream media lead your life and be your sole source of information. You need to be proactive and seek out information on the net and through blogs.
It is less of a story than the Al-Qaida sympathizer who crashed the Cessna into a building in Tampa. It was covered but not as a terrorist story. No matter how much Doug Hagmann wants this to be some kind of George Noory conspiricy.......it simply is not!
Of course "anonymous", I'm sure what we have here is one more "isolated incident", just like with Zacarias Moussaoui, Charles Dreyling and Timothy McVeigh. It's too bad the FBI in Oklahoma doesn't spend as much time actually investigating and prosecuting the REAL terrorists as they’ve spent protecting them for Boren and Tenet these past 15 years.
In this case, one just has to wonder though how many depressed college students in this country would choose to avoid the peaceful atmosphere of a duck pond one block from their apartment that happens to be surrounded by a large empty park, in order to get closer to a stadium filled with more than 80,000 people and commit suicide by bomb without threatening the lives of innocent people. Oops.. I’m sure that’s another question on the long list of questions David Boren and the Oklahoma chapter of the Fumbling Bureaucratic Idiots don’t want to hear.
Move along now please, there's nothing to see here.
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