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The following explosion and deaths of two men outside an indian casino story, possibly involving fireworks, mixes in a death threat from a blog. The two men were so badly burned that dental records will be required.
You’d think a progressive blue state newspaper would get the terminology right, but nope, above is the screenshot and text from KOMO news below (emphasis mine):
Matheson has claimed he canceled an earlier press conference on the issue after he received a death threat. The threat was purportedly made on a Web blog, but the man who maintains the blog has said no threatening material was posted.
No linkage for the blog/blogger in question which is still too typical fare these days for news articles. The article credits the Associated Press as the source so perhaps it’s them — which might be worse — for the terminology mistake. Call this an advantage for bloggers that we can make mistakes like this, add an update and then fix it when a reader/commenter shows our zipper being undone. But it is no mistake that there isn’t a link, which is the bigger crime here.
Crimes of context.
Perhaps a minor, nitpicking deal in the scheme of things, but with politicians like John Edwards who could be the Democratic Presidential nominee in 2008 speaking this morning from 11:45 - 12:30 at a heavily blogger-attended event like Gnomedex, hopefully mainstream media gets their blog-related etiquette polished.
It’s not often that posts here contain an alleged death threat on a blog, explosion with a casino backdrop and a prominent politician speaking at a local conference. Only loosely connected. Sounds like an episode of some campy 80s TV show. TGIF!
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