Mainstream media outlets like NPR and CNN are criticized for reporting "hundreds" of protesters when visual evidence suggests tens of thousands. Coverage highlights a smoke bomb arrest in Toronto and a vehicle driving into protesters in Winnipeg.
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Mainstream media outlets like NPR and CNN are criticized for reporting "hundreds" of protesters when visual evidence suggests tens of thousands. Coverage highlights a smoke bomb arrest in Toronto and a vehicle driving into protesters in Winnipeg.
As the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins, questions arise regarding the "smoking gun" video evidence previously cited by Governor Duval Patrick. Despite official claims that video showed the suspect placing a backpack near a child, no such footage has been produced in court. The defense's strategy of admitting Tsarnaev's presence while blaming his brother is compared to the legal proceedings in the film Idiocracy.
A brief lockdown occurred at the White House after an unidentified individual threw a smoke bomb over the fence. The hosts suggest these types of incidents are "trial balloons" or tests of security and media response, noting that the story disappeared from the news cycle within thirty minutes.
