jock123 Moderator
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#2 · Posted: 8 Jul 2005 07:56
Thankfully no problems here. The route of my girlfriend’s bus went along the same street as where the bus was destroyed, but a little before, so she wasn’t involved in that.
We walked most of the way home, and then one of her colleagues gave us a lift the rest of the way; the abiding memory of the day - for me - will be the throng of literally thousands of mainly subdued people walking home.
I am appalled at our’s and the world’s media, and the sensationalist rumour-mongering they did yesterday, each seemingly trying to out-do the other with new un-substantiated tales of attrocities; nobody seemed to worry about the upset they were causing. I think by the time I was heading for home they were reporting six bombs on the tube, and four buses attacked (not the case). Even as a layman, I could see that the reports of two of the buses being in Russell Square and Tavistock Place, probably meant just one bus, as the two are part of the same long street - but not one report I heard mentioned this possibility, which was in fact the truth. There is a line between the inadvertant mis-reporting of facts in the heat of the moment, and the wanton disregard for the truth.
I was wholly in accord with the senior official who, at a press-conference, begged for them to reflect on what they were saying, and to wait for concrete information, only to be then immediately asked, “Yes, but how many people do you think will be dead?†or some such.
Anyway, I hope that everyone else is okay, and that the city will rally round.
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