Arrest in Actual Bomb Plot in Spokane: Will This Story Break Wide?

By: Teddy Partridge Wednesday March 9, 2011 5:50 pm

My major question about today’s arrest in the actual bomb placement at the Spokane, Washington, Martin Luther King Day parade is this: how will America’s media cover the arrest of a non-Muslim motivated by white supremacy who actually placed an operational bomb in a clear hate crime?

Spokane Silence: Some Terrorism Scares Are More Useful Than Other Terrorism Scares

By: emptywheel Thursday January 20, 2011 7:10 am

I actually don’t think the non-coverage of the Spokane incident is a response to the Giffords assassination attempt and the ensuing media frenzy. Rather, it’s a reversion to the status quo, less than two weeks after that assassination attempt.

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