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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 3 Comments

From College Insurrection: MIT community recalls officer Sean Collier, shot by Boston bombing suspect Emerson College Students United After Boston Marathon Bombing Missouri State Student: What We Know About Boston Springfield College Paper Recounts Horror of Boston Marathon Bombing The Northwestern Chronicle Reacts to the Boston Marathon Bombing Emory student decries...

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Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 20, 2013 15 Comments

A few hours before he would be shot and killed by law enforcement, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev called an uncle with whom he had not spoken in about two years.  During that call, he asked his uncle for forgiveness. From USA Today (via the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 27 Comments

The NY Post and other media outlets are being raked over the coals for releasing a photo of alleged suspects which turned out to be wrong, as I discussed. It turns out the cops may have been playing the media deliberately to give the real suspects...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 51 Comments

Most Americans believe that having a gun in the home makes you safer: A Washington Post-ABC News poll — not a Rasmussen or some Rove outfit, but the Post and an alphabet network — finds that by a wide margin, more Americans believe that having a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 40 Comments

It started with Bill Sparkman, the part-time Census worker who went missing and then was found dead, setting off an avalanche of mainstream media and left-blogosphere accusations that he was the victim of anti-government "right-wing" hate.  It turned out that Sparkman killed himself, but there...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 9 Comments

Many people sent me links to this image. I don't know if it's real, or was obtained from Reddit, 4Chan, or CNN. But it's too good not to print, with all the caveats, "reportedly." Picture of the century: highjacked car had "COEXIST" bumper sticker twitter.com/chelseagrunwal…— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 19,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 20 Comments

UPDATE -- Suspect in custody. Ace has the photo of the take down. Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info.— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013 "We got him" #oneboston twitter.com/mayortommenino…— Mayor Tom Menino (@mayortommenino) April 20, 2013 -------------------------------------------------- Just breaking. Large volley of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 6 Comments

The family of Lu Lingzi, the Chinese graduate student killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, issued a statement Thursday, via BU Today: We are grieving and at a loss for words to describe the pain and sadness we are experiencing following the sudden passing of our...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 19, 2013 14 Comments

UPDATE 1:30 pm EST: The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is at the New Jersey home of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber's sister.  Authorities say that she has been cooperative and that there are no reports that she was involved in any of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 15 Comments

I'm going to leave this as a stand alone post for you to follow updates as they happen in real time. MOVED TO NEWER POSTS...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 18 Comments

Ben Smith on the crowdsourcing photo analysis and media failures of the past few days: The media's new and unfamiliar job is to provide a framework for understanding the wild, unvetted, and incredibly intoxicating information that its audience will inevitably see — not to ignore it. A...

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