Would you have us do different? Fred
> Folks, > From the Huffington Post: > > "Last November, David Rohde was kidnapped in Afghanistan and held for > several months, before managing to escape with his interpreter. Media > around > the world, at the request of the *Times*, kept silent about the > kidnapping, > and later drew criticism for this from some quarters. It has just > happened > again -- with my magazine, *Editor & Publisher*, among those not writing > about it -- in the case of another well-known *New York Times*reporter in > Afghanistan, but for a much shorter period of time. > > Stephen Farrell, with his aide Sultan Munadi, were seized on Saturday and > freed just hours ago in a daring raid by British commandos. Munadi and a > commando were killed. Farrell is fine. > > I saw some indications that Farrell had been snatched in my regular Web > searches for media scoops over the weekend. As in the case of Rohde, a > handful of not prominent blogs, along with very scattered media abroad > (in > their original language) reported that something was up, but confirmation > was slight, given the silence of the *Times* and U.S. military. > > This went on for two days, as I kept searching -- and finding that, once > again, the media apparently were not rushing anything into print or > online. > > Also, as in the case of Rohde, I noticed that Farrell's Wikipedia entry > had > been scrubbed -- some user kept trying to post the kidnapping and the > "news" > kept getting deleted, before the entry was put under "protected" status > and > the cat and mouse game stopped. You can see it in the "history" there > along > with complaints of this "censorship crap" occurring again. " > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/again-media-and-wikipedia_b_280233.html > > Given the lack of reliable sources, the removal of information on the > kidnapping seems justified. His article is here. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Farrell_(journalist) > > > Regards > > > *Keith* > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
