Boylston Street scaffolding collapse
... There were white sheets covered in blood everywhere and pools of it pouring down the street. ...
... So, I was walking to my dorm from class, and I heard this HUGE crash. ...
Boston LiveJournal discussion of the collapse.
... This instance of near-me-but-not-me fatality makes me thankful to be alive. ...
Photos from the scene. Even more photos.
Photos of the scene several hours later.
... I got as close as I could and it was mayhem down there ...
There but for the grace of God ...
The Globe (eyewitness accounts; MP3 audio from the scene) and the Herald (coverage; blog with eyewitness accounts) showed they can cover breaking news as it happens. At least on a weekday downtown (as opposed to a Sunday evening in Roxbury). But you'd think somebody in the boston.com newsroom might have been able to convince somebody in the ad department to turn off the "breaking glass" floating ad for a bit:
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Wow...
I had no idea until I saw this here. I just listened to the MP3 of the eyewitness accounts. It's amazing the depth these accounts add to the story.
More photos: http://flickr.com/photos/camoby/archives/date-taken/2006/04/03/
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Local media did a good job
Kind of negates my comments in the Crime News blog.
Eh, whatever.
LiveJournal posts from Emerson College students
Posts by members of LiveJournal's 'emersoncollege' community
Not everything posted today is about the accident, but a lot of it is.
That Sullivan Tire ad
They're still playing that Sullivan Tire ad at 8:20 a.m. the next day, and the scaffolding crash is still the lead story. Talk about insensitivity. There's a photo of the scene where three people died and the ad shows a baseball hitting and breaking glass. The ad would have been nothing more than a typical Web annoyance (and boston.com has always been at the front of those), but now it is a disgrace to the operation. It would have been one thing if the ad were there when the story first went up, but to still be active 17 hours later is shameful.
Also, even if the ball just flew across the screen rather than hitting and breaking glass, it still would be a disgrace. There are times when the news has to trump advertising revenue.
Obviously George Bush's fault.
eom.