Interesting: If you look at the Wikipedia history page for his entry, you'll see that information about a possible kidnapping was repeatedly added, then pulled off, then added, then pulled off again. So the effort to conceal the story was a new media as well as an old media endeavor.
====== AIM/Gmail Chat: damonbeau Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/damonbeau Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/damonbeau On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 13:11, danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > (not to be confused with the David "make money fast" Rhodes) > ------------------ > > It seems he was grabbed by them in Afghanistan _7 months_ ago, > but everyone kept it under wraps hoping for his release. > > [NY Times] > > Times Reporter Escapes Taliban After 7 Months > > David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, > escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven > months > of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. > > Mr. Rohde, along with a local reporter, Tahir Ludin, and their driver, > Asadullah Mangal, was abducted outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 10 while > Mr. > Rohde was researching a book. > > Mr. Rohde was part of The Times's reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize > this > spring for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan last year > ... > Until now, the kidnapping has been kept quiet by The Times and other media > organizations out of concern for the men's safety. > ------------- > > rest: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/world/asia/21taliban.html > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > [email protected] > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
