memeorandum: The Hits and Misses of the Gun Debate on Cable News (Chris Ariens/TVNewser)

2:40 AM ET, April 19, 2013

Top Items:

New, Higher-Resolution Image of Boston Marathon Suspect Emerges — Shortly after finishing the Boston Marathon this week David Green, 49, was walking to meet friends when two bombs exploded in front of him as he faced east on the corner of Fairfield and Boylston Streets.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Telegraph, Taylor Marsh, The Jawa Report, AMERICAblog, Business Insider, Gawker, Riehl World News and The Other McCain

ABCNEWS:

Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber — The teenage boy authorities once investigated as possibly being connected to the Boston Marathon bombing told ABC News today he was shocked to see his face pop up on television and all over social media. — Salah Barhoun, 17 …

Discussion: The Smoking Gun, Telegraph, Business Insider, The Big Picture, Guardian, Daily Kos, ABCNEWS, FP Passport, The Week, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Pat Dollard, The PJ Tatler and Shakesville, more at Mediagazer »

Bloomberg:

Boston Bombing Victim in Iconic Photo Helped Identify Attackers — FBI Releases Images of Two Boston Bombing Suspects — Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him. — Just before 3 p.m. on April 15 …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Quartz and Little Green Footballs

MyFoxBoston:

FBI releases images of two marathon bombing suspects — The FBI released images and surveillance video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. — In a press conference Thursday, FBI officials said the public will play a critical role in identifying the men accused of committing the bombings.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers

Josh Margolin / New York Post:

Two men probed in Boston Marathon bombings cleared by investigators — Investigators have now cleared the two men whose pictures were circulated last night in an email among law enforcement officials, sources told The Post today. — Authorities determined neither had any information or role …

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, The Raw Story, Mediaite, Infowars, Right Wing Watch, The Week and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
The Boston Bombing Witch Hunt Bags Another Innocent Kid

New York Times:
F.B.I Releases Video of Boston Bombing Suspects

Discussion: The Democratic Daily, Outside the Beltway, Crooks and Liars and Mashable

Fox News:
FBI releases video, photos of Boston Marathon bombing suspects

Discussion: Doug Ross, Blazing Cat Fur, Riehl World News, Infowars and The Reaction

Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Saudi student hurt in Boston bombing not a suspect, not being deported

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, The Daily Caller and BREITBART.COM

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Romney: Boston Marathon bombers ‘demented’

Discussion: CNN and Politico

Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Confusion over Saudis in Boston following marathon attack

Discussion: Salon, Hullabaloo and The PJ Tatler

Daniel D'Addario / Salon:
Post editor on “Bag Men” cover: “We did not identify them as suspects”

Discussion: Guardian, Gawker, Mediaite, Poynter and Capital New York, more at Mediagazer »

New York Post:
Authorities circulate photos of two men spotted carrying bags near site of Boston bombings

Todd Eastham / Reuters:

George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX — (Reuters) - George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for years against the same sort of free-wheeling capitalism that made him billions.

Discussion: Quartz, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Weekly Standard, The Lonely Conservative, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Outside the Beltway, Mashable, The Dish, Business Insider, Ed Driscoll and FP Passport

Taylor Bigler / The Daily Caller:

Reuters accidentally publishes George Soros obituary — Publications often prepare obituaries for famous living individuals, particularly ones who are near death. Publications don't, however, generally prematurely publish them. — Thursday evening, Reuters accidentally published …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications

Robert Farago / The Truth About Guns:

BREAKING: President Readying Executive Orders on Gun Control — “Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control fight Thursday that President Obama will be announcing new executive actions on gun violence in the days after the Senate voted down a gun violence bill,” buzzfeed.com reports.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and protein wisdom

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:

Biden Pledges More Executive Action On Guns “Later This Week” — On conference call with stakeholders, Biden says Obama will carry the gun control fight forward on his own. Updated: The White House says it is only implementing some of the executive actions Obama announced in January.

Discussion: American Power, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, Infowars, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Pat Dollard, Washington Monthly and Weekly Standard

Anne Bartlett / Post Politics:
Reid pulls gun bill from consideration

Discussion: Althouse, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, The Spectacle Blog, Lynn Sweet, The Hinterland Gazette and Washington Post

Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Syria no-fly zone a possibility says Clapper

Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers

Tarini Parti / Politico:
Harry Reid: ‘Pause and freeze’ on gun control

Discussion: CNN and The Plum Line

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

On MSNBC, a Gun Debate That Fox Doesn't Seem to Worry About — President Obama hadn't finished his first sentence on Wednesday when the Fox News Channel cut away from his Rose Garden remarks about the Senate's defeat of a measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers.

Discussion: NewsBusters and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

The Hits and Misses of the Gun Debate on Cable News — Not only is Fox News getting knocked (though CNN is taking the brunt) for inaccurate coverage from Boston Wednesday, the network is also being criticized for not covering Pres. Obama's Rose Garden statement following the Senate defeat of a key piece of new gun legislation.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite

Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:

An Officer's Been Killed and There's a Shooter on the Loose at MIT — Updated 12:02 a.m.: MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Thursday night reporting shots fired on the university campus. MIT's school newspaper, The Tech, reports, “Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, ABC News, The Lede, Gawker, Riehl World News, Mediaite and The Hinterland Gazette

Senator Max Baucus / Mike Pompeo:

Pompeo writes to Senator Baucus about Obamacare “Train Wreck” — “No one in the country bears more responsibility for the complexity of this law than you.” — 107 Cannon House Office Building — Washington, DC 20515 — 511 Hart Senate Office Building — Washington, DC 20510

Discussion: National Review, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, The Hill, Great Falls Tribune and Politico

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obamacare Has Its Problems, But It's Basically On Track

Discussion: Hit & Run, The PJ Tatler, Via Meadia, The Hill and Eschaton

The Huffington Post:
Regal Entertainment Group's Obamacare Policy Leads To Facebook Backlash (PHOTOS)

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and ThinkProgress

Alliance for Justice / Justice Watch:

Scalia's latest: Unethical or merely appalling? — We've all seen it before: — Justice Antonin Scalia makes comments that are appalling in their racial insensitivity. — Justice Antonin Scalia skates right up to the line of ethical impropriety. — But this time Scalia managed …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Weasel Zippers, theGrio and Law Blog

Spencer Overton / The Huffington Post:
Justice Scalia's Latest ‘Racial Entitlement’ Remark

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com, ACS Blog, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress and Hit & Run

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Gun debate triggered media bias — If you thought President Obama was outraged after the Senate killed the plan to expand background checks on guns, you should have seen some members of the press. — Even by the standards of today's partisan media environment, the response has been noteworthy.

Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Holder gets stormy reception from House panel — The fact there is no love lost between Attorney General Eric Holder and House Republicans was on clear display again Thursday afternoon at a stormy House appropriations panel hearing which culminated with the subcommittee's chairman declaring …

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Modeling the Senate's Vote on Gun Control — The failure of the Senate on Wednesday to pass a variety of gun control measures is yielding its share of second-guessing. How close was President Obama to seeing the bills meet the 60-vote super-majority required for approval?

Discussion: New York Times, Taegan Goddard's … and The Reaction

James Hohmann / Politico:

Media shrug at Boston blunders — The inaccurate report by CNN and other news organizations about an arrest in the Boston bombing case was arguably one of the most flagrant errors on a story of major national consequence in years. — When the news organizations later corrected their mistakes …

Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog

Evan Hurst / Truth Wins Out:

Former ‘Ex-Gay’ Superstar John Paulk Finally Renounces His ‘Ex-Gay’ Past — Paulk Must Now Begin The Hard Work Of Atoning For The Damage He Has Done To LGBT People, And Anne Paulk And The Religious Right Must Stop Peddling The Lie Of The Paulks' “Fairy-Tale ‘Ex-Gay’ Marriage” Immediately, Says Truth Wins Out

Discussion: Joe. My. God. and Good As You

PQ Monthly:
Is John Paulk ready to renounce his ex-gay gospel?

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Advocate and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Jim White / emptywheel:

John Galt Kills Texans in Massive Fertilizer Plant Explosion — Google Maps satellite view of West Fertilizer and its proximity to West Middle School, along with many houses and apartments. — Who needs pesky safety regulations or zoning laws when there is money to made running a fertilizer plant?

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, CBS Dallas and Washington Monthly

Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
West Texas Fertilizer Plant Hadn't Been Inspected In The Past Five Years

Discussion: The Week, WFAA-TV, New Republic, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Crooks and Liars and The Impolitic

Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:

The Angriest Obama We've Ever Seen — After the Senate failed to expand gun background checks, the president flashes anger — The compromise on background checks died today in the Senate. And President Obama is as angry as we've ever seen him. — Late this afternoon …