Scott Hanselman

This one http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6819755 says "Hours later, another man jumped a wrought-iron White House fence down the street on Pennsylvania Avenue and was quickly apprehended by Secret Service agents after injuring his ankle."
Crazy.

No need to sensationalize one man's psychosis (he was allegedly screaming "God is Great" in Arabic) when the only one harmed was the individual involved. Yes it should be reported, but it's hardly the top headline.

In my opinion, this is nothing but manipulation of information. There are demostration all over the country, but how many of them do we see on TV? Those media corporations benefit from Bush administration anyway, so they want to hide anything negative to Bush administration. A lot of people are upset about this administration, but media is not talking about it for their own benefit, which makes me sick to my stomach.

At least CNN is talking about it now.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/15/man.afire/index.html

NBC has covered it today. Apparently the guy is an FBI informant, distraught over not being able to return to his home of Yemen.

Moral of the story, don't jump to conclusions.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6494926/

According to the Washington Post, the man approached the FBI voluntarily after September 2001 because he wanted to help. He was allegedly promised great monetary reimbursement (he received $100k), citizenship, and generally good treatment. In exchange, he helped the FBI find and apparently capture at least one high-profile suspect. Now the FBI is holding his old passport (they did not give him US citizenship) and he is thus unable to travel home to visit his apparently cancer-stricken family (he himself is said to suffer from diabetes and more). In addition, his identity and details of his help were leaked - now his family is subject to threats in Yemen. Recently he has been giving a series of interviews to Washington Post reporters. Pretty unbelievable that the initial news stories mentioned none of this for many hours (though they did give the man's precise age).

The full article is available on the front-page of www.washingtonpost.com, but now requires subscription. Title is "Terror informant ignites self".

"Those media corporations benefit from Bush administration anyway, so they want to hide anything negative to Bush administration." - Hiriami

Wha ??? You must be living in a parallel universe or something.

90% of the news media are registered Democrats.
Most major newspapers endorsed Kerry.
Election night, you could see shock and disappointment on the faces of ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS news anchors. All smiles on FOX, but at least we should get ONE network :)

Most of the media will defend themselves and try to say "no, we are neutral, we just report the news", but I've NEVER heard anybody accuse them of being in the pocket of the Bush administration. That's just absurd.

True, I was just saying (myself) that it was weird. I'm not implying it was being swept under the rug...it's just that burning oneself up is close to being a suicide bomber, and I thought more people would be freaked.

NPR interviewed the journalist that had interviewed him several times, she seems to believe his story but the FBI can't say whether someone is in protective custody or not.

CNN is a joke. We had CNN constantly running in office kitchen and I never ever saw any story or footage or any funny quotes that might make Bush look bad during whole of his previous term. While watching Farenheight 911, I just asked myself where the hell so called best news network journalists were all the time? Why I never saw any of these footage on CNN? They literally kept painting Bush as strong desirable leader every single second of their transmissions I'd seen. They showed whole thing for 5 seconds is surprise for me - usually they are not supposed to show any anti-Bush footage.