Slate Editor: 'Strong Consensus' That Dzhokhar Was 'Normal

April 19th, 2013 8:14 PM
"There's a strong consensus he was pretty normal." That's how Slate's Emily Bazelon described surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who seems to have been discovered by the police. You cannot make this stuff up. The Slate writer interviewed two family friends, who attended Tsarnaev's high school who said of him: "He was really nice,” Sam Greenberg [Bazelon’s family…

Fox's Chris Wallace Asks: Perhaps Boston Residents Would Have Liked Fi

April 19th, 2013 7:17 PM
While discussing the ongoing manhunt for the second suspect behind the bombing of the Boston Marathon, Chris Wallace -- the host of Fox News Sunday -- linked the Monday terrorist attack with the debate on gun rights currently going on across the country. Pointing to the fact that most of the region is in a tight lockdown due to the search for 26-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Wallace asked how…

NYT Headline Over Story on Bombing Suspects: 'Far From War-Torn Homela

April 19th, 2013 5:02 PM
The New York Times has been mostly steady and factual in its coverage of the bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. But the paper is taking criticism Friday for its benign headline over its online story on two terrorist suspects from Chechnya, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed in a shootout early Friday morning, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, still on the loose Friday afternoon. A…

Will Media Report: Suspected Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Appears t

April 19th, 2013 3:58 PM
Several posts on what several news organizations have confirmed as the Twitter profile of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicate that that the 19-year-old Chechnyan immigrant was a supporter of Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election. If that is indeed the case, it does not mean that Obama has any sort of connection with or responsibility for the bombing suspect or…