source: SFGATE
Why isn’t the NAACP bombing being covered?
BARBER SHOP EXPLOSION
Colorado Springs police officers investigate the scene of an explosion Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at a building in Colorado Springs, Colo. Authorities are investigating whether a homemade explosive set off outside the building that houses a barber shop and the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP was aimed at the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock ) MAGS OUT
On Tuesday morning, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated next to the local offices of the Colorado Springs, Colorado, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) headquarters. While no one was harmed and the damage was minimal, the FBI found a gasoline can next to the bomb that failed to ignite and cause more damage.
The attack was disturbing to say the least, but what is more profound is the general lack of coverage it has received by major media outlets. It took CNN half a day to report on the bombing and nightly news networks gave little to no mention of story that night.
Many people were alerted to the bombing only after it became trending on social media platforms Twitter and Facebook, with many questioning why the story wasn’t making headlines.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Headlines fit expectations.
"Islamist extremists" in Paris.
"A man" and "an explosion" in Colorado.
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NAACPBombing?src=hash">#NAACPBombing</a> <a href="http://t.co/EWtSZ2AfC6">pic.twitter.com/EWtSZ2AfC6</a></p>— JRehling (@JRehling) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRehling/status/552923815051685888">January 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
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The day before the attack, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund publicly announced it was asking Missouri Circuit Court Judge Maura McShane to appoint a special prosecutor in the case against former Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson.
There are still plenty of questions surrounding the bombing.
Was there a bias in coverage? What was the motive? Does the attempted bombing of an NAACP office building not fall under the umbrella of domestic terrorism?
For all intents and purposes, a suspected domestic terrorist on the loose in Colorado should have made some waves, even if thankfully, there were no casualties to speak of.
There was plenty of news coverage in 2001 of the shoe bomber who tried to detonate explosives on the American Airlines flight from Paris, France, to Miami, Florida. There was plenty of coverage on the man who tried to detonate a car bomb by Times Square in 2010.
So why should we ignore this most recent failed attempt of terrorism on our doorsteps?
Why isn’t the NAACP bombing being covered?
BARBER SHOP EXPLOSION
Colorado Springs police officers investigate the scene of an explosion Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at a building in Colorado Springs, Colo. Authorities are investigating whether a homemade explosive set off outside the building that houses a barber shop and the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP was aimed at the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock ) MAGS OUT
On Tuesday morning, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated next to the local offices of the Colorado Springs, Colorado, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) headquarters. While no one was harmed and the damage was minimal, the FBI found a gasoline can next to the bomb that failed to ignite and cause more damage.
The attack was disturbing to say the least, but what is more profound is the general lack of coverage it has received by major media outlets. It took CNN half a day to report on the bombing and nightly news networks gave little to no mention of story that night.
Many people were alerted to the bombing only after it became trending on social media platforms Twitter and Facebook, with many questioning why the story wasn’t making headlines.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Headlines fit expectations.
"Islamist extremists" in Paris.
"A man" and "an explosion" in Colorado.
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NAACPBombing?src=hash">#NAACPBombing</a> <a href="http://t.co/EWtSZ2AfC6">pic.twitter.com/EWtSZ2AfC6</a></p>— JRehling (@JRehling) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRehling/status/552923815051685888">January 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
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The day before the attack, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund publicly announced it was asking Missouri Circuit Court Judge Maura McShane to appoint a special prosecutor in the case against former Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson.
There are still plenty of questions surrounding the bombing.
Was there a bias in coverage? What was the motive? Does the attempted bombing of an NAACP office building not fall under the umbrella of domestic terrorism?
For all intents and purposes, a suspected domestic terrorist on the loose in Colorado should have made some waves, even if thankfully, there were no casualties to speak of.
There was plenty of news coverage in 2001 of the shoe bomber who tried to detonate explosives on the American Airlines flight from Paris, France, to Miami, Florida. There was plenty of coverage on the man who tried to detonate a car bomb by Times Square in 2010.
So why should we ignore this most recent failed attempt of terrorism on our doorsteps?
