While I cannot speak for the New York Times, Canadian media have acted in the same way to protect members of NGOs who have been kidnapped.
Perhaps a more pertinent question is why this particular reporter's kidnapping was more newsworthy than the majority of kidnappings that occur in the area. Risker 2009/6/29 David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> > would the news media have acted equally to protect someone kidnapped > who was not part of the staff of one of their own organizations? > > preventing harm is the argument of all censors > > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ken Arromdee<arrom...@rahul.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >> > This case is more about basic common sense. If someone's life may be > >> > endangered by what is on their wikipedia biography but is not widely > >> > reported elsewhere, I would expect that anyone sensible would find > some way > >> > of applying policy so as to keep the life-endangering stuff off it. > And that > >> > would take precedence over secondary arguments over whether obscure > news > >> > agencies were reliable. > >> Apparently the news agency is the top of its local area > >> (Afghanistan), so how you spin that into "obscure" is > >> frankly beyond me. > > > > Besides, if someone's life would actually be endangered by the > information, > > it should be taken out under IAR. It should *not* be taken out by > abusing > > the rules to take it out. That's why we have IAR in the first place. If > > you do it by abusing the rules, you undermine the trust that people have > > placed in the system. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
