[ricks_place]

Pakistan declines to support a reporters right to associate with terrorists.

[L98Fiero]

That's kind of what I got from this article.

[Lazamataz]

You can hardly blame them.

Who WOULDN'T assault a New York Times correspondent?

[yobid]

Terrorist cheerleaders take one for their team. What's the story here?

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Oh...how tragic.

[fish hawk]

They assault us with their treasonous articles but they don't like it when they are assaulted.

[toddlintown]

Carlotta Gall

I'll bet.

[prophetic]

oh cry me a river....

Somehow I feel that the treatment they got fell a little bit short somehow.....

Thoughts of Mr Berg's head getting painfully cut off at the hands of terrorists somehow comes back to mind.........

[jazusamo]

It was the first reported incident of Pakistani agents belting a female reporter.

She said she was hit when she tried to stop them from taking her notebooks. I have a feeling she's not telling us the whole story of what she said and did.

[cardinal4]

Pakistan declines to support a reporters right to associate with terrorists.

Thats how I see it, too..

[raftguide]

Lets see here! You associate with people who cut American's heads off while they're still alive, but if some government agent--one from a country friendly to your own--punches you in the nose because of your interferance in his job, laws, and customs you get upset? I thought NYTimes reporters were bright enough people to avoid such cultural relativism.

[PA Engineer]

On the left photographed with mom. A google search makes it clear she is a well funded leftard.

[BW2221]

I wonder how the NYT will report this. My guess is that it won't.

[CottShop]

And I spotted a red hot stove top and stuck my hand on it nad got burned- what's yer point reporter? You went into a hostile hotzone region and got burned? Shocking! http://sacredscoop.com

[theDentist]

The Press in general seems to think that they are not "ordinary people", that they are above it all. Much as Doctors or Priests and Nuns have a "calling", Reporters think they too have a sacred calling... that they are Historians, above the petty bickering and bartering in the world. When they arrive at the scene, combatants are to shoot around them, not question their story or sources.
And then they get these rude awakenings... beaten up, head sliced off, shot on the battlefield.

[weegee]

This shouldn't be news to reporters.

CNN suppressed news reports of abuse and torture under Saddam Hussein to maintain their Baghdad Bureau.

Reporters don't tell all that they know and they know that non-Western governments do not respect a free press.

[domenad]

We need to get those guys visas. I wouldn't mind having them come over here, giving them a picture of Frank Rich and a coupla Benjamins and letting their imaginations go to work, if you get my drift.

[sgtbono2002]

WHEN YOU GO TO THESE PLACES YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCES. IF SHE DOESNT LIKE TAKING CHANCES ,SHE SHOULD LOOK FOR A NEW LINE OF WORK.

[citizencon]

NYT culture of audacity and arrogance...they are the news..

[voletti]

Whats more likely is that Pakistan has skeletons in its cupboard to hide. They wouldn't want western media getting a clear wind of the support for the Taliban within the pak establishment.
Daniel pearl too was beheaded because he discovered too much about the links between al qaeda and the pak intelligence agency ISI.

[GretchenM]

Until I see photos of the alleged perps allegedly attacking the alleged reporter, I am unable to believe the alleged attack took place by the alleged assailants.