Bomb Attacks in Mumbai Kill 21 - July 13, 2011

The NBC Evening News story on this terrorist attack in Mumbai centered around the possibility that the attacks killing 21 people were conducted by a group based in Pakistan and, if proven that the Pakistani group was responsible, the terrorist action could result in nuclear war between India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers.

The story of the bombings was told in factual terms.  However, no group had yet claimed responsibility, so the rest of the story was almost purely baseless speculation, with the exception that the last major terrorist attack in Mumbai, which was in 2008, was conducted by the Pakistan based group.

Andrea Mitchell made inflammatory comments such as “there is no hot line between India and Pakistan”, “could have an accident” and “this time they (India) most likely would (attack)”, all with the intent to sensationalize the story and gain viewership for the NBC network.  At the very end of the segment, Mitchell stated that an internal group in India could be responsible for the attack.