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Art, Writing, and Learning: The Clerisy Quarter => Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza => Topic started by: comrade_general on May 25, 2013, 11:11:08 PM

Title: Boston Bombings
Post by: comrade_general on May 25, 2013, 11:11:08 PM
Just curious as to how much (if any) coverage of this there was outside the US?
Title: Re: Boston Bombings
Post by: Scarlet on May 25, 2013, 11:43:08 PM
There was quite a lot of coverage of it here [UK] it was the main headlines for a couple of days and there definitely updates on how it progressed. Also, discussions of the whole reddit-caboodle-disaster-thingy were heard and I saw a lot of criticism of the bed-side hearing. This may just be the news I read though.

I assume in the US there was pretty much wall to wall coverage?
Title: Re: Boston Bombings
Post by: comrade_general on May 25, 2013, 11:51:39 PM
For a time there was yeah. Also when this happened: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/09/justice/ohio-rescued-women-developments
Title: Re: Boston Bombings
Post by: Scarlet on May 26, 2013, 12:11:10 AM
Did you get any news reports against what the government were doing? Do you ever?

We got that too.

To be honest being inside the Cambridge bubble means I'm a little more out of touch with this stuff that I'd usually be.
Title: Re: Boston Bombings
Post by: comrade_general on May 26, 2013, 12:22:54 AM
Depends which news station you watch, usually get something different. :P
But I don't watch the news that often, as in listening to what they have to say about things, I just try to learn enough to know exactly what happened and spare myself the news stations' theoretical ramblings.
Title: Re: Boston Bombings
Post by: Scarlet on May 26, 2013, 12:27:27 AM
Probably a good plan. It's often hard to separate them to be honest, annoyingly.