User blog comment:Avataress0/Thoughts for Boston/@comment-34954086-20130416084016/@comment-1038387-20130417145233

It's the news. 100 bombs in the Middle-east? Old news, there've been 100 bombs daily for the last ten years. Not very exiting to report about. Same with bombings. Sad, but it's war. And that's not just the US coloring the news. Bombs fall on Syria, where the government explicitly targets kids? A minor footnote. Rockets on Eilat? Back page news. But a pin prick in the supposedly safe bastion? World news.

Though I can understand the idea that they're overdoing things. In my work for a news site, I monitor the major newspapers every ten or so minutes, and boy, there's a lot of minutiae, repeated over and over. Whole stories about the families, about the bombs, about who did it, about why it isn't strange noone has claimed the attack yet, expert this, expert that, blah blah blah. Local news too. One runner from this town unhurt. One runner from that town unhurt. Though my favorite was "brother saw 9/11, sister saw Boston, parents forbid other kids to go to States." It's a pity, as we've got major stories at home right now that deserve attention (like health insurers making fat profits amid increasing cuts and layoffs in healthcare, or the future king's exorbitant wage and tax exemption).