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from the why-we-can't-have-nice-things dept.
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.
Original Submission
(Score: 2, Informative) by szopin on Monday August 17 2015, @08:38AM
They had the building swept the night before, locked with guards through the night and then swept again before letting anyone in (with guards throughout the day), for the people that organized this there was no credible threat. They were expecting trolls and prepared for them. Do they evacuate any politicall rallies based on similar? Or do they also screen people that come in and sweep the area before?