Boston Bombing Discussion Blog

I really liked the presentation for this week; I thought it encouraged a lot of good discussion/thought, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.  I had actually never seen the footage that you guys showed, and I found it tremendously impactful.  It actually made me feel anger towards the terrorists for the first time…..Powerful stuff.

            As usual, I read two articles on the subject at hand, and the first one that I found was published by the New York Times.  It is titled Bombings Trip Up Reddit in Its Turn in Spotlight, and is located at this url:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/business/media/bombings-trip-up-reddit-in-its-turn-in-spotlight.html?_r=0 .  Something that is under-covered when people recap the Boston Bombing was the impact that Reddit had on the whole debacle.  Reddit is a social media site, and kind of acts like the front page for the internet.  In the Boston Bombing case, Reddit helped in the investigation (and actually made the problem worse) of finding those guilty in the Boston Bombing.

            The second article that I read was located here: http://jacksonville.com/news/2013-04-16/story/effect-boston-bombing-felt-many-sports-events .  It talks about how sports events for a long time will be affected for a while, and to me, this means that the terrorism was effective.  It is sad, but if citizens are scared from here on when they go to sporting events, the terrorism succeeded. 

I would hope that people focus more on the positive aspects of the tragedy, because some really great things happened because of it: Boston as a city, and America as a country, banded together and worked hard to find those guilty, and it was a very successful manhunt.  Great presentation, with very interesting public discussion.