In your TV evening news reporting the bomb threats made from overseas you ended with the statement - (a paraphrase) that the individual sending the treats might be now searching for other targets.

This is not news; it is speculation. Once again ABC news is trying to compete with sensationalist entertainment rather than sticking to REPORTING the news.

This is disappointing and indicative of a gradual slide, a fudging of boundaries, between news and entertainment.

Sincerely,

Dick

Who would be stupid enough to give money to a phone bomber? Maybe stores better make sure they hire better managers that are not WOOSYS.

I think that these are some fools that don't have anything better to do, like GET A JOB!

Absolutely right, Dick. I see the gradual slide thing, too and agree.

I agree w/Dick & Stormkraft (instead of GAINING viewers, ABC will begin LOSING viewers)!

If these knucklheads are caught, I hope our lame justice system remembers this is domestic terrorism and not just prank phone calls.

Keith, wrong on two points. It's not domestic, as the calls are from Europe. It's not terrorism, either. Even the FBI isn't sensationalizing into something more than criminal activity.

Calling everything terrorism plays well into what seems to me to be a pattern of government justification for too many vile actions. Illegal wiretaps, a successful assault on habeus corpus, etc. All in the name of fighting terrorism.

The robbers empty European bank accounts via manipulated or stolen credit card information via the Internet. But the banks say that the information/investigations leads to Eastern European countries. In the Scandinavia countries, the robbers detonate or blew up frequently the vehicles that transport cash or valuables with bombs or explosives. The robbers equip many cash dispensers in Europe with false equipments that copy the bank customers' information.

The extortions in the USA are probably not unique in the law enforcement context. But confusing or mixing up terrorism and robbery might undermine the efforts to fight the international terrorism.

Benny
Anti-terrorist Expert

I try to keep my comments to myself on the people that post on almost every comment section I read.

If you a accuse speculating by ABC, then YOU are speculating on ABC losing viewers. If you have nothing but negative comments on what you read, think about keeping your own fantasies out of these posts. Those who agree with Dick are probably in lock step with the fantasy that we are winning the war on terror and in Iraq. Oh, here I go speculating.

I, for one am sick of the national news media and the way Kansas is abbreviated in all stories. We have a national standard of two letter abbreviations for all states. Why does every media outlet continue to use Kan, when KS is the states known official abbreviation?

Who would be stupid enough to give money to a phone bomber? Obviously you did not know that the employees who were affected didn't realize that you, in the comfort of your own home, are the expert on phone bombings. As an employee who was involved with one of these calls, I had my life threatened by a gunman who was waiting for instructions "in the store", and I WOULD be stupid if I hadn't felt any panic or had not complied with his wishes. We didn't send money because we were SMART enough to call the police during the phone call. But I guess some wouldn't realize that we have certain guidelines we have to follow in order to maintain the safety and security of our employees and customers.