TLC Crackdown: When journalists don't use their brains

'Failed London bombers' accused of extremist Muslim plot

Mr Sweeney said Omar's one-bedroom flat in New Southgate, north London, was the "bomb factory" and "where the great majority, if not all, of the work required to make those bombs was carried out".

The court heard that the bombs were made of a mixture of liquid hydrogen peroxide and chapati flour, which would burn with the oxygen provided by the hydrogen peroxide. Mr Sweeney said the bomb would be detonated by several grams of triacetone triperoxide (TATP).

Full transcript here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1827427.htm

I saw this news story during dinner tonight. Read the exerpt carefully. This is the result of journalists choosing to report the wrong shit.

Finished reading the exerpt? Ok, let's continue.

I am currently wondering who will take the blame when curious Australian viewers go ahead and try out the "bomb recipe" provided by this news story. Obviously an ABC News journalist did not bother using his/her brain when they wrote this and decided to broadcast it all over Australia during the evening news.

Thanks a lot for quite possibly making Australia a more dangerous place. Maybe nothing will happen over this, but maybe there will. Curious young people might decide to go build their own bomb for kicks and hurt themselves or somebody. Who'll get bashed by the media then? Are they still going to stereotype Muslims as being the only people who do these things? Now everybody who watched that particular segment know what the core components are and can construct their own bomb. Not only so, but both ingredients are available at your local supermarket. Isn't this f-ed up? Oh, soon it won't be "extremist Muslims" blowing shit up, but it'll be random Australian schoolkids.

O shi-, I saw that segment too, and now I know how to build a bomb. I wonder if the journalist did it to raise awareness, or what? This story was about something happening in the UK. Going into the details of how the bomb was made was absolutely unnecessary. There was no need at all to report that, but it was done anyhow. Thanks. Welcome to "the list". The writer of this story is extremely lucky I was too appalled by this news to catch their name.

It is a good thing that the majority of my readers are mature young people. But to broadcast that shit to family televisions around our beautiful country is a true demonstration of how stupid journalists can be. This is an example of how journalism can go terribly, terribly bad.