3. Boston Globe
• Articles appear a few hours after the incident.
• New articles and facebook posts are uploaded
every hour.
• Articles include witness’s testimonies
describing their near death experience.
4. Articles context
• Most of the articles are presented fully detailed.
• Articles are objective with some emotional
elements:
“We lost something Monday, too, and that is the idea that we will
ever feel totally safe in this city again”
“The location and timing of the bombs was sinister beyond
belief, done purposely to maximize death and destruction”
• Lots of hideous images of wounded people are
shown and some videos too.
5. Reporters…behind the lines
• They tend to connect the incident with the
terroristic attack of 11th September.
• They refer to a Saudi man as a suspect
although the police released him.
• The explosions took place after the winners
and the elite athletes had crossed the finish
line.
