Read for you: Confusion in the U.S. media in the aftermath of Boston

By Le Monde.fr

The impatience of the opinion to the apparent groping investigating the terrorist attacks Monday, April 15, in Boston, and the frantic rush of the media to be the first to announce the identity and motivation of terrorists or made their first victim on Wednesday: the reliability of the information.
Ahead of his colleagues, and on the basis of an anonymous source at the FBI presented as reliable, CNN announced that a "suspect was about to be identified" by investigators. The man would appear on images of a surveillance camera Lloyd & Taylor stores now carry and deposit a package with a black cloth on the location of the second explosion. It is assumed that both pressure cooker containing the mixture of explosives and scrap metal were wrapped in tissue or black nylon stockings, traces of which were found on site.
Man, "white race", according to the American administrative terminology, appears on these images wearing a gray hooded jacket and wearing a cap with a baseball team backwards. Soon the future used by CNN was transformed by several media present tense: the FBI held a prey, a suspect was in his hands. Less than half an hour later denied holding any "suspect" the federal police and asked the media to "exercise restraint" to avoid disseminating information uncommitted.
PRESS CONFERENCE CANCELLED WITHOUT EXPLANATION
She announced a press conference for 17 hours. Finally, it was more. It will never happen. Half an hour before the meeting, it was canceled without explanation. Presumably, a lively debate took place at the highest level of the team led by the FBI, which eventually preferred the silence for the sake of the investigation, even for an indefinite time, to emphasize a little more disappointment opinion.
Meanwhile, a new episode might have convinced the FBI not to rush. Waiting to see a suspect brought before a judge, hundreds of journalists had rushed in federal court in Boston. But the rise of the rumor creating its own mechanics, it was soon followed by a bomb threat at the courthouse, forcing police to evacuate immediately.
The rumor then was just a hoax or reflected a desire to harm. "There are so many expectations, so many people want to know who committed this abomination that sometimes the pressure on the media becomes too strong," explained later presenter of the local branch of the Boston CBS to explain precipitation of his colleagues.
"NATURAL FRUSTRATION" OF OPINION
What is known of the status of the investigation? The FBI actually identified video images that appear potentially critical him. After viewing thousands of photos and videos taken by individuals and hours of footage of surveillance cameras and listening to an immeasurable number of telephone conversations, the FBI considers this the first evidence to progress in the search for a suspect. As for the images, they date back to about an hour before the explosion.
Finally, a person has been questioned, but as we know if it is the one shown on the pictures. However, nobody has been arrested. And has no certainty about the number of terrorists, their identity, their motivation. Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts, said he understood the "natural frustration" of the opinion "as the authors of [attacks] have not been caught," but warned: the investigation "will be slow."
The consequences of this delay, and therefore the maintenance of uncertainty, begin to be felt. In large cities, the number of alerts to suspicious packages is rising. And a suspect in connection with letters containing ricin sent to several U.S. officials, including President Barack Obama, was arrested Wednesday in Mississippi.