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I know that I am probably WAY in the minority here, but I am sick of all the news following this happening in Boston.  By that, I mean, EVERY local channel, EVERY network news, EVERY minute (it seems) following this, was consumed by this story.  Why?

True, it is a tragedy.  It is a tragedy the way it happened, when it happened, and how it happened.  But - sorry, news folks, I do not need to hear constantly what is going on in the aftermath.  Same story, different people, over and over.

But - every tornado that strikes is also a tragedy for the area it happens in.  MANY more people are killed, and, sometimes, most of a single community.  When a tornado strikes, though, it gets on the news - the local news - for maybe a five minute story every night for a week, then at the 6-month anniversary (maybe), then at the year anniversary (maybe).  The network news doesn't even figure into it unless it is a major city.

But because there is a chance - a minute chance - that this could be, in some way or another, some kind of 'terrorist' attack, it is everywhere, constantly.

I say 'let the cleanup start and the experts do their jobs, and when they can tell us something CONCLUSIVE, then let the news start shoving that down our throats, not the re-telling of the same story in different versions by different people at different places and the mind-blowing chaos of an aftermath of any kind of explosion.'  Firemen, policemen, and civilians running around, each in the intensity of their own jobs or confusion, tells me absolutely nothing of the HOWs and WHYs, which is the information I need to continue looking after the safety of my own family.