[TomGuy]

Right after the OKC explosion, the network news reporters/commentators were talking about the possibility of "foreign terrorists" and primarily Middle Eastern being the perps. About 15 to 20 minutes after the national nets began their live coverage, the reporters/commentators changed their "possibilities" to include, then probably was, a VRWC extremist. Soon any reference to ME or foreign were replaced with VRWC extremist. [I thought at the time that it seemed strange the way they shifted their reporting so quickly.] When McVeigh was caught it "confirmed" the revised reporting.

[It always seemed to me to be supicious that the OKC explosion, following soon soon after the WTC bombing, was directed toward an American extremist, even after reports of ME men that same morning on the net reports. I guess word came down from "higher up" that it was solely the work of VRWC extremists.]

[aristeides]

I would be very interested to learn how the government transmits its marching orders to the media.

[Orangedog]

There is one other "inconvenient detail" that isn't mentioned enough regarding this subject. That is about the local TV coverage in the first few hours after the explosion. There were numerous times when they reported that other unexploded bombs had been found and that rescue efforts were being hampered while the bomb squad removed and defused these devices. Look on the net, there are videos of the local news coverage just after the explosion. If there was more than one bomb, then there had to have been others who were working with McVeigh in the hours and minutes before the building was attacked.

[bimbo]

[ It always puzzled me that the reports of un-exploded ordinance being removed from the wreckage quickly disappeared as well.]

[angkor]

[I thought at the time that it seemed strange the way they shifted their reporting so quickly.

That's like the live realtime coverage of Ron Brown's demise.

First it was CNN's "airplane down in the ocean, military spotters there, debris in the water, the worst storm in 25 years" by a noticably unsettled talking head.

There was great deal of specificity to the initial reports, which mutated to "hit a mountain" after about 60 minutes.

They did keep the "worst storm in 25 years" story, which of course has been proven to be patently untrue.