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To: cleveland gop

Yes, that seems to be the latest, other than a little update on how tight-lipped FOX is being.

From a post earlier in the evening on the blog:

"Fox News has provided Olaf Wiig's wife Anita McNaught with a driver and car to drive from Syria to Israel, the NZ Herald reports. "Fox, she said, had built up contacts throughout Gaza and would be working its contacts in the Palestinian Authority and the US Consul to ensure his release..."


557 posted on 08/14/2006 8:58:30 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: NinoFan; All
Latest Update from MediaBistro.com:

FNCers Kidnapped In Gaza: Tight-Lipped

> Update: 11:21pm: Here is Jennifer Griffin's 10pm update: "Greta, as you know, we have been reporting today that two of our colleagues were kidnapped in Gaza earlier today. They were taken against their will from the vehicle they were driving in. Fox News at this time is doing everything within its power to get them safely returned back home and we will report more on that as we have details."

Fox News Channel is carefully and wisely limiting coverage of its two kidnapped employees. Since 2pm, when TVNewser started monitoring FNC coverage, the net has aired four brief updates about the kidnapping by Jennifer Griffin. Apart from those, FNC hasn't mentioned the situation, preferring to handle it behind the scenes. When Nihad Awad of the Council on American Islamic Relations prefaced his appearance on The O'Reilly Factor with an expression of sympathy, Bill O'Reilly quickly responded:

AWAD: Bill, thanks for having me and allow me first to share with you and your viewers that our organization CAIR has issued a statement demanding the release of the Fox crew who were abducted or kidnapped today in Gaza and we pray and hope for their safe return to do their job back to their families.

O'REILLY: I just meant to tell everybody we are not going to have much more on that because we are, you know, in the process of trying to get that solved.

As Jack Shafer noted in January, "it's an article of faith for some that no news is the best news when it comes to kidnappings."


562 posted on 08/14/2006 9:35:35 PM PDT by Semper911 ("We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." -Marge Simpson)
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