Seattle News Bites: June 1, 2001

In today's edition, we are going to focus on 2 breaking and developing stories our local news MISSED at the time!

A suicide bomber in Israel killed himself and 15 others, plus wounded approximately 70 at a crowded beachfront disco in Tel Aviv, making this the worst terrorist attack in 8 years!
By Saturday morning, the death toll had reached 17 and the number of injured had climbed to over 100!
In Nepal, the Crown Prince killed several members of his own family, including his parents, the King and Queen, before killing himself. The reason for the attack was apparently because his parents didn't approve of his choice of a wife.

The networks were covering these stories when they broke at around 3:30 or 4 PM, and new details were still emerging when our news went on the air at 5 PM.

We just find it totally unbelievable that ANYONE would not lead off with these!

Quite frankly, NOTHING LOCAL can compare to a major terrorist attack and a Royal Family being murdered!

And let's look at the Seattle Times and PI's Saturday papers. Did they give priority to a terrorist attack: NO!

Instead,they had devoted more frontpage coverage to the local protests over a shooting than the killing and wounding of dozens of teenagers in the worst terrorist attack in 8 years!

This just goes to show how OUT-OF-TOUCH with reality our local news is!

WE THINK YOU DESERVE BETTER!---TELL THEM YOU AGREE!