Day 8 (Monday) Updates from mediabistro.com:
10:23 AM FNCers Kidnapped In Gaza: 1 Week Ago FNC correspondent Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig were kidnapped one week ago today. Here's the last report Centanni filed for FNC, during the 9am hour on Monday, Aug. 14.This morning, Public Eye wonders if we're growing tired of journalists-under-fire stories. "Maybe it's just us, but it seems the kidnapping of two Fox News journalists in the Gaza Strip last week has gotten far less attention from the press than other high-profile kidnappings," Vaughn Ververs says...
8:05 PM Steve & Olaf: "The Longest Period" That Any "Foreigners In Gaza Have Been Held"
Brit Hume on Monday's Special Report:
"It has now been one week since our Fox News colleagues, national correspondent Steve Centanni and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig were kidnapped in Gaza. It is the longest period that any kidnapped foreigners in Gaza have been held. But we still have no information on Steve or Olaf's whereabouts, or their condition, although no one has threatened to harm them. Indeed, no one has claimed responsibility for taking them and no demands have been made in exchange for their release. Over the weekend, Steve's brother made an appeal on behalf of the Centanni family for his release and Olaf's wife, herself a freelance journalist, remains in Gaza awaiting for word of her husband. Fox continues to work with the Palestinian authority and Palestinian security forces find Steve and Olaf and to free them."
8:17 PM Steve & Olaf: New Zealand Media Updates When Anita McNaught met with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas late last week, he assured her that Olaf Wiig was alive and well. "I think he had assurances from some groups who say they know that," Roger Wiig says.
"A 'huge amount' of activity in Gaza City is working towards the release" of the two men, McNaught says.
Stuff.co.nz: NZ diplomat Peter Rider says: "We got a lot of assurances that people are working very hard on this and I was very please to get a personal commitment from the Prime Minister that he is doing everything he can and exercising a lot of authority over his staff and forces to try and find what has happened to Olaf and his Fox News colleague." TVNZ: "Palestinians held in Israeli jails in Gaza have appealed to their countrymen to help find" the two men... "Anita McNaught, Fox News staff and the Red Cross, have a statement from Palestinian prisoners in Gaza condemning the kidnapping."
Dear God in heaven, it is the eighth day.
No one knows anything.
Fox gave an undate this evening.
Any coverage or reports on other networks?
Checking in with a prayer.
Sounds like the prisoners have been informed as to what their future (or lack there of) might be unless Centanni and Wiig turn up alive soon.
Seems odd in light of the behavior we have seen with middle eastern bomb-toting extremists.
I am also still somewhat surprised with the virtual black-out of this story by the rest of the MSM, but one story on FOX led me to believe that there is some internal reason for the lack of publicity. Not sure why, just an impression.