Posted on 01/17/2006 12:28:54 PM PST by HAL9000
Why do articles call her a free lancer, if she works for the CSM? I am not clear on this situation.
Its time for Al-Jazeera to be added to the list of targets, they are comforting and aiding the enemy. I read a report that Al-Jazeera was transmitting codes for Al-Qaeda over its wires. If this is true, they should be taken out. A source in the news said that Al-Jazeera wouldn't tell who gave them this tape. Al-Jazeera is a legitimate target.
I take it you mean she cares about the real Iraq, not that she's a terrorist sympathizer. Am I right?
Do you think Ted regrets taking that job at Al Jazeera? After all, he could be part of a big story right now.
Have to part ways here. Among Muslims, there are no "countries". There is Dar al Islam (the Islamic world) and the non-Islamic world. This has never been properly understood by us infidels, to our great detriment. Imams in every Muslim "country" agree that all of Spain for example, belongs to Islam, because Islam once ruled there. Therefore, by law, it must be retaken. This is also why to them, Israel must be destroyed and peace is an impossibility.
I think you're wrong this time. I think she didn't take the terrorist threat seriously. If so, she was wrong, and will pay with her life. Maybe this is a scam that she's complicit in, but I don't think so.
If she's not on the payroll, and is paid by the story, she's a freelancer. No matter how often they decide to work with her. When she's not on assignment for the CSM, she's free to pursue stories and pitch them to other publications. That differs from a staff reporter, who would assume that he CSM has first dibs on all her work.
A better wording would be that she was on assignment for the CSM, rather than "working for." Most news organizations use freelancers; some magazines are almost entirely written by freelancers, with only the editors on salary.
Kin to the freelancer is the stringer, usually someone in a place where it's not worth it to maintain a constant presence. For example, if you're a writer for an English-language paper in Yemen, you might also be a stringer for the AP.
There's not a precise definition of either term, but the freelancer typically has a closer relationship with the publication, and is more likely to take assignments, where the stringer is peddling his wares after the s--- hits the fan.
The staff/freelancer/stringer distinction is pretty much the same whether you're talking about writing, photos or video.
I was about to have a midnight snack. Thanks for ruining my appetite. ; )
That philosophy exists at some level, but it's mostly been a failure so far. Muslim countries exist, and will continue to exist for the foreseeable future, despite the pan-Islamic rhetoric.
Blowing up a meteorite isn't going to help Jill Carroll.
Umm, we already knew, thanks anyway.
Heard on the news a statement by her family members asking the terrorists to let her go because she was there to tell the real truth about the Iraq war. Hmmm...
as well, am wondering whether the 'no sound' is 'our viewing' or whether there was a malfunction. . .or just Al Jazeera - turning it 'off'. . .
But it would make great TV!
The skinny seems to be that Jill Carroll was set up. She is 28 and evidently an idealist. Terrorists don't care if you 'love Arabs and respect their culture', etc., and why anyone thinks this would afford any kind of protection is beyond me. They kill women all the time. The MSM seems to have accepted that fact and written her off. (I wonder how the MSM would react if this were Ted Koppel or Dan the Man.)
Jill Carroll is a free lance journalist who's been in Iraq/the Middle East for several years. She's legit. Stupid, but legit.
I think the MSM kept quiet until today on the chance that the kidnappers were just thugs interested in ransom money, and the Christian Science Monitor/friends/family might have paid for her release. Instead they're murderous terrorists with a larger agenda.
According to some of the journo blogs out there, they've been trying to keep it low-key due to negotiations.
Thanks for the instructive answer. It adds much to this thread, where some Freepers seem to believe that she was abducted because she works for a "Christian" paper. I think she was taken because a lot of bloodthirsty muslim men hate to see independent women, especially non-Iraqi women travelling freely in their country.
The idea that she was taken to ransom "all women in Iraq prisons" is laughable.
I haven't heard much of this at all - I also wonder why the MSM is so oddly silent on this.
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On the Fox News Channel's Newswatch program last Saturday, the silence on this story was one of their topics. They did not add much in their discussion.
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