Deadly bombs rock Boston

[nero_bolt]

Terrible..... 

Why do they do this and what do they hope to achieve

Chaos as twin blasts rock Boston Marathon

Two bombs have exploded near the finish of the Boston Marathon, killing two people, injuring scores of others and sending authorities rushing to help wounded spectators.

There was a large explosion and a white flash. It blew us all back onto each other. It was so loud, I still can’t hear out of my right ear. I was crawling on the sidewalk, and my cell phone blew out of my hand. There were some really hurt people.

The explosions occurred as recreational runners were finishing, at just before 3pm local time (5am AEST). Television footage shows two explosions occurring metres from each other near Copely Square as competitors crossed the finish line.

Runners fell to the ground, which flowed with blood. Police arrived with bomb-sniffing dogs and hotels were put on lockdown. Reports say as many as 90 people were wounded, with some having limbs blown off.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/chaos-as-twin-blasts-rock-boston-marathon-20130416-2hwl8.html#ixzz2QZcLr...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/reports-of-explosion-near-finish-line-of-boston-marathon/story-fnddckzi-1226621194152

[windrake]

So the casualties of the Boston bombing are not as deserving of coverage or compassion because people are killed all over the world every day ??

What's the agenda here?

[polksaladallie]

We have the same thinking here, Colic.  Think of the outrage (and deservedly) over the Bali bombings which took the lives of mainly young Australians, yet the same number of young Australians killed on our roads in a short period receive a largely apathetic response.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

So the casualties of the Boston bombing are not as deserving of coverage or compassion because people are killed all over the world every day ??

What's the agenda here?

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/consumer-behavior21.html

Selective Sensitization

Definition

A tendency to perceive more readily information that is consistent with ones needs and beliefs

http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/1/107.full

In that respect, the social definition of a specific risk can be manipulated, amplified, magnified, or minimized.

Especially when key events such as “nine eleven” launch new risk issues and uncertainty reigns, the public has to rely on the messages communicated to them by the media.

But what do we actually know about the effects of these media messages on the definition of risks, health perception, and personal well-being?

[colic2bullsgirlore]

MEDIA HYPES AND RISK AMPLIFICATION

The media can operate in different modes: media can follow, but they can also lead.

They can report ongoing events, disseminating (official) information to the public.

But they can also play a leading role in the social construction of the problem after a disaster, for instance, by creating a news wave based on magnification of one specific perspective.

Operating in this mode, the media can have a huge impact on the way that a disaster and the risk issues involved are defined and perceived by the public as well as the authorities; nowadays, this is why the key concepts in this area of media research are social amplification of risk framework, framing and media hype.

Although these concepts refer to independent phenomena, they are described here in their interrelated context.

"He was interviewed he is not considered a suspect"

[azureline**]

No one is more deserving than anyone else when innocent people are killed or injured, however, it seems that when it is "other" country's citizens, it doesn't have the same impact in the media.

[catsnknots]

The reason we tune out to what is happening in the middle east is because there have been ongoing wars and disputes for decades... 

We are sick of hearing about it.. they choose to blow themselves up because they can't get themselves together... it is a carry over from thousands of years of disputes between tribes... it has been their way of life forever.... 

We tried as westerners to go in and help but we couldn't... it was a waste of our time and our money and our soldiers lives... 

I really have not a lot of sympathy for what goes on over there... they are guided by values I do not hold as mine... they are full of corruption, the safety of the women and children seem to not even come to mind in the attacks that happen. Power has corrupted and I don't like it... 

and the media don't cover it because there is not any footage... or very limited... they can't do a story on it because you can't get any information... how do they do a four hour story with two minutes of footage? 

It was reported... I heard about it... what more can they give with nothing there to report? 

[azureline**]

That is a bit heartless... and simplistic? choose to blow themselves up? 😮

[i-need-a-martini]

Virginia Trioli did not say this:

“this happens every day in Afghanistan, Iraq etc...these poor people experience this every day...yet we only pay attention when it happens to ‘RICH WHITE PEOPLE’.

She said this:

THE contrast of course with what goes on in . . . Iraq . . . and also in Afghanistan . . . We did report this morning, of course, that there were a series of bomb attacks overnight in Iraq . . . That's the contrast that we always have on a day like today when it seems to me where we are overly focusing on what happens to rich white people in the West, versus what happens on a daily basis in those countries.

And lets not forget the context. She was reporting the events of the last 24 hours. Reporting both the Boston bombings (3 dead) with the same days events in Iraq (over 50 dead). She had already spent a considerable amount of time reporting on Boston.

Sadly we are shocked only when it is white people who die. WE don't even blink when hundreds of people in horrific circumstances elsewhere.

Even more sad (and despicable) is the fact that some moron like Bolt would use this tragedy to score points against a journalist he dislikes. Why aren't you up in arms about this low act windrake?

[i-need-a-martini]

they choose to blow themselves up because they can't get themselves together

Innocent families, innocent children were MURDERED yesterday. People going about their every day life.

I wouldn't have taken you as being someone so heartless cat.

[catsnknots]

well, I am talking about suicide bombing in the main but maybe I should have phrased that differently.. They (the bombers) choose to use bombs to inflict their will on the innocent people. they blow themselves up.. their own people... 

and it is not heartless... it is honesty... it is well known that the more we see the more desensitised we become... we lose that compassion as we see the same images over and over again. 

I feel incredibly sad for the innocent people caught up in the Middle East conflicts... and as Westerners we inflicted much of that pain in the last ten years or so... Families just want to go on with their daily lives in peace but they can't... they really have not done so for centuries.