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Media Blackout

It looks like at least one blogger at CBS is wondering about the silence of big media, on the Oklahoma University suicide bomber.

Has there been more happening at the University of Oklahoma than hazing and all-nighters? The blogosphere, led by Michelle Malkin, has been chronicling the suspicious explosion at the University of Oklahoma just over a week ago, and wondering why the big media doesn’t appear interested.

According to most reports, Joel Hinrichs III was a young man with a history of depression who used a homemade explosive device to commit suicide just 100 yards or so from the school’s football stadium, which was filled with over 80,000 people at the time. Officials were quick to call the incident a suicide, but rumors and reports of Hinrichs’ attempts to buy large quantities of ammonium nitrate and ties to the Muslim community have raised a lot of questions and the answers thus far are not forthcoming.

The silence is weird. but Vaughn Ververs gives hope for more covereage and maybe investigation.

Many, Malkin included, have wondered where the MSM is on this story. As the Oklahoma Daily editorial notes, local television has covered it and a quick Google search turns up (sometimes conflicting) reports in local and regional newspapers but no major media outlets appear to have picked up the story yet. We asked CBS News national editor Bill Felling, who told us the network is looking into the story. Let’s hope so, it’s one worth airing, whatever the facts are.

We have been the Google route, and it seems that there is some stirring and and curiosity growing about all this. Not just in the bombing and bomber, but in the medias silence as well.
In the meantime Kevin offers some insight on the "why?" as a comment to an earlier posting.

Boren is the most popular pol in Oklahoma history, and was regarded as a "moderate" Dem during his career, but this ridiculous press release suggests that he's been completely captured by the liberal loons who surround him in the Ivory Tower, and has himself lost touch with reality.

One reason crazy speculation grows is that university presidents and others clamp down on information that might dispel (or confirm) crazy speculation, and thus bloggers, media, and other interested parties are left to do the best they can, hoping to prompt authorities into confirming or denying various theories.

So, President Boren, we're looking forward to hearing more information that can set us straight and keep us from being "intolerate!" How about helping us out?

posted by Liberty @ 9:08 PM