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The utter silence of the MSM is deafening and disgraceful. To my knowledge, no major English language news organization had identified the woman kidnapped as Jill Carroll. La Repubblica seems to be the only western newspaper even bothering to cover the story. What is most shocking is the discrepancy between the coverage of this kidnapping and the coverage of other westerners recently "kidnapped," particularly the German woman who was released, and the "peaceworkers" still held. One might think that now that an official member (which this young woman clearly is) of the english-speaking elite media "club" has been grabbed that the story would be front page news. I looked in vain for mention of this story on the on-line version of the New York Times. I am forced to conclude that since the story is a nuisance that interrupts their antiwar agenda, the peril of this young journalist is news that's not "fit to print."