OT: More broadcast journalism

[Jonathan Lighter]

It took two by-lined AP journalists to write the following [
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_re_us/us_times_square_car_bomb]:

"The surveillance video, made public late Sunday, shows the man slipping
down Shubert Alley and taking off his shirt, revealing another underneath.
In the same clip, [he] looks back in the direction of the smoking vehicle
and furtively puts the first shirt in a bag."

I've watched the video several times, and simple accuracy demands
"...walking down Shubert Alley" and "looks behind him and places the first
shirt in the bag."

At least the article cites Mayor Bloomberg (for balance):  "'He may or may
not have been involved,' he said, adding it was a hot day and he might
simply have been trying to cool off."

Whether or not the guy turns out to have been involved, the only possible
reason to write "slipping," "furtively," and "in the direction of the
smoking vehicle" is to make his actions - in this clip -  seem especially
suspicious.

JL




On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Could there be more than one at large?  I remember an important _X-Files_
> episode involving an evil-doer who could "bilocate," i.e., be in two
> different places at the same time. And he wasn't even the Antichrist.
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> Use of disguise would help too.
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> Food for thought.
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> JL
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > But believers would accept as fact that he *isn't* innocent and, even
> > if he were, they would claim that he could still *voluntarily* have
> > accepted the role of the Antichrist's beast of burden.
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> > -Wilson
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> > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > At 5/3/2010 11:05 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> > >> > Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
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> > >> > And it's something else again for an American to
> > >> > suspect that the President of the United States, duly elected by
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> > >>of
> > >> > millions of fellow citizens and vetted by an established national
> > >>party is really
> > >> > [the Antichrist].
> > >> >
> > >>True.  But on the other hand, if you were the Antichrist, wouldn't you
> > >>incarnate yourself as a the President, use your Antichrist powers to
> ge=
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> > >>millions of people to vote for you, and put your Antichrist buddies in
> > >>power in an established national party to vet you?  This seems a lot
> > >>more likely than Antichristing at McDonald's by carrying the trash to
> > >>the dumpster.
> > >
> > > Wasn't that theory discredited in 1692, when it was finally
> > > determined (after the trials were halted) that the Antichrist could
> > > not take the form of an innocent person without that person's
> > cooperation?
> > >
> > > Joel
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