The Media Tries In Vain

There was a bomb blast on a London subway this morning.  A great many people were hurt, but thankfully, no one was killed.  The bomb was in a white container that was in the shape of a bucket.  The London police announced that they are treating this as a terrorist attack.  So what is the media response?  The first article I saw is one that just came out at Yahoo News that says that the London bomb "might be" a terrorist attack.  In other words, despite there being a terror attack, Yahoo News is trying to question that being the case.

So let's take a step back and consider if this was an accident.  Hmm....  The white container had a batch of explosives and a detonator in it according to the police.  The detonator went off, but it failed to ignite the main body of explosives.  There is no way that this was anything other than a bomb.  If it's a bomb on the subway, what else could it be besides a terrorist attack?  Was this just a school project that a nine-year-old was bringing for the science fair?  Maybe it was a gardener who was on his way to work after whipping up a bomb to remove a stubborn tree stump.  No, it was a terrorist's bomb.

Why would the media label this as something other than a terrorist attack?  Why spread misinformation about a terror attack?  The days of not using the words "Islamic terrorism" may be over at the White House, but for parts of the media, that position lives on.  It's just ridiculous.