Did you see the news?

[Doolipalally]

I'm always interested in which news stories get reported where, and the impact this has on the whole question of who in the world knows what, and the impression people have of world events.

Last Monday morning, two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the Moscow metro during rush hour (see this version of the story from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8594159.stm)).

My husband and I are from the UK but living in Moscow at the moment.
At the time we were on holiday in Cyprus. We didn't find out about it for a day or so (by which time our friends and relatives had been divided into those who knew we weren't in Moscow at the time and those who didn't and needed reassuring) but it seemed clear that it had been widely reported in the UK media.

I'd be really interested to find out how far the story spread. I know it's just one event on one day, but it might be an interesting snapshot...

[Needle]

I saw an article about in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/world/europe/03moscow.html?th&emc=th) this morning, but this was the first I'd heard of it. I received an earlier article (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/world/europe/30moscow.html?th&emc=th) from the NYT on Tuesday, but work has been so crazy this week that I'm finally just getting to read the news :mad:

[zmflavius]

I saw several new stories on yahoo!, but I didn't examine it in depth. I assumed that it was yet another Chechen-involved incident.

[texlaw1992]

It actually got a fair amount of coverage in our local paper. Oddly enough, a few months ago I read a spy novel involving the infiltration of a training camp for Chechen "black widows," so the origins of the bombing did not surprise me.

I'm glad to hear you and your husband are ok, but it leaves me wondering if Putin will take this opportunity to crack down on ordinary citizens even more. We'll see.

[scout1idf]

I saw several new stories on yahoo!, but I didn't examine it in depth. I assumed that it was yet another Chechen-involved incident.

Like ZM, I saw the stories but didn't really read them....

[spencer]

I get news updates from CNN on my email at work, and that is where I heard about the bombings. I went to the story, but it was still developing and did not have a lot of detail.

[thingirl]

I saw it, read the first 5 or so paragraphs, the had to leave for something. It's just sad. 16 year old meats a guy in a chat room, they arrange a date, he kidnaps her, and then dies a year later.

[zmflavius]

I saw it, read the first 5 or so paragraphs, the had to leave for something. It's just sad. 16 year old meats a guy in a chat room, they arrange a date, he kidnaps her, and then dies a year later.

Huh? Where?

[thingirl]

Here
(http://www.listown.com/group/dzhennet-abdurakhmanova-and-islamist-rebel-umalat-magomedov-11360)

Kommersant said the couple met in an Internet chat. Magomedov then set a meeting and drove her away by force when she was still 16.

A better version is here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/russiaattacks), but it doesn't have that paragraph.

[zmflavius]

Here
(http://www.listown.com/group/dzhennet-abdurakhmanova-and-islamist-rebel-umalat-magomedov-11360)


A better version is here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/russiaattacks), but it doesn't have that paragraph.

Ahhh...I didn't see that in any of the three links before yours.

[Badstench]

It was on the prime-time TV news hour in New Zealand

[Young Ned]

I hadn't heard of it at all before Dooli mentioned it to me on Facebook, but I pay very little attention to the news. I don't watch TV news at all, and don't read much of the newspaper. So it may have been reported here and I simply didn't notice.