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Society of Professional Journalists AirPlay Event Subject to Multiple Bomb Threats

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday August 16 2015, @09:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the why-we-can't-have-nice-things dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

A press event gets not one but six bomb threats and it's not covered by any major news outlet that day aside from a few paragraphs on Forbes.com? Is it just me or would not the mainstream media eat this much meta up with a spoon if any topic other than #GamerGate were being discussed?

The first threat was made at 1:15 pm ET, but attendees chose to stay. Later, a specific threat was phoned into The Miami Herald and the Miami PD, claiming that a bomb would go off at 2:45 pm ET. At this point, attendees and panelists exited the building and eventually finished their discussion outside.

You can watch both the morning panel and the interrupted afternoon panel on the SPJ AirPlay YouTube channel.

The most interesting bit to me though is the difference in how differently #GamerGate and its critics handle anonymous threats. Finishing the event in the parking lot then throwing a party just has more style.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by khallow on Monday August 17 2015, @12:24AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 17 2015, @12:24AM (#223683) Journal

    So who's to say? I can't adjudicate this.

    Earlier you were making broad generalized statements. Maybe you should ease back on the sweeping statements given your inability to adjudicate this?

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @12:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @12:59AM (#223695)

    > Maybe you should ease back on the sweeping statements given your inability to adjudicate this?

    Gamergater hypocrisy? I'm shocked!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @03:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @03:51AM (#223755)

      It's about ethics in adjudication!

  • (Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Wednesday August 19 2015, @05:30PM

    by K_benzoate (5036) on Wednesday August 19 2015, @05:30PM (#225092)

    You're no more qualified than I am so I'll shut up when you do.

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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 20 2015, @02:30AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 20 2015, @02:30AM (#225251) Journal

      You're no more qualified than I am so I'll shut up when you do.

      Good news then. I don't make breezy generalizations and then turn right around and claim that I don't know enough to have an opinion on the subject that I just gave my opinion on. You aren't going to get any peer pressure from khallow for that.

      And "qualifications" are a non sequitur. I didn't read your posts because you were "qualified", but because I was interested in your opinion. If that opinion had been well reasoned, then I would have responded accordingly.