Posted on 01/09/2006 12:51:04 PM PST by NativeNewYorker
Another newspaper asks to protect ONE of its reporters, and the shoe is on the other foot...
Huh? If they are honoring the request to keep it hush-hush, then why are they blabbing about it?
Soldiers, on the other hand.....
You gotta point.
It is OK to save one reporter but not millions of Americans.
No kidding.
Excuse me while I puke at the hypocrisy.
If the Times reported that the terrorists have captured, and will probably kill, a female reporter, it would tend to give the terrorists a negative image ... and we can't have that now can we.
It's called professional courtesy -- for the media's allies in the War on Terror, the terrorists.
No blackout on FR on the story this weekend...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553555/posts
the internet routes around censorship...
"News is what your Editor says it is unless the Publisher says it isn't."
Carl Liberto, Managing Editor of the now defunct Shreveport (LA) Journal
A young, 20 something, female, white, liberal reporter...
Bingo!
They knew they should probably be hush-hush, but since it might make President Bush look bad, they went ahead with the story.
American soldiers are looking for her...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0976087.htm
This was the first I saw of this being reported, and I remember being skeptical it was even true.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553588/posts
Posted on 01/07/2006 5:16:55 AM PST by ferri
The story was reported in todays Boston Herald or NY Post, can not remember which as I read them early this morning.
They did not mention her name or who she was reporting for.
They shot her driver dead and abducted her was all the story said.
"I saw a group of people coming as if they had come from the sky," recalled Ms. Carroll's driver, who survived the attack. "One guy attracted my attention. He jumped in front of me screaming, 'Stop! Stop! Stop!' with his left hand up and a pistol in his right hand."
When five or six men, including a large, mustachioed man with short hair waving a Glock handgun, stopped Carroll's car, the driver said he thought the men were from Dulaimi's security detail, so he slowed down.
The kidnapping occurred within 300 yards of the office of Adnan al-Dulaimi, a prominent Sunni politician, whom Carroll had been intending to interview at 10 a.m. Saturday local time, the driver said.
Mr. Dulaimi, however, turned out not to be at his office, and after 25 minutes, Carroll and her interpreter left. Their car was stopped as she drove away. "It was very obvious this was by design," said the driver. "The whole operation took no more than a quarter of a minute. It was very highly organized. It was a setup, a perfect ambush."
So the paper wants to protect it's reporter......as it should. But has no problem at all jeopardising our soldiers every chance it gets!
Since the terrorists know they have her, I fail to see the reason for the secrecy.
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