Saturday, October 13, 2012

DUH!!!

Yup!

Media coverage was ‘harmful’ during kidnapping: former Canadian diplomat
"Former Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler, whose kidnapping by al-Qaeda made international headlines, says media “blackouts” of such events can prevent ransom demands from escalating to the point where they cannot be met."
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"Fowler told Postmedia News Monday that his web-savvy captors viewed media coverage of his kidnapping on laptop computers and Nokia cellphones.

From it, he said, they came to believe he was on a “secret mission” in Niger, a suggestion reported in The Globe and Mail.

“Was it harmful to me? Yes, likely,” he said. “The idea that you can write things here that won’t impact there is just — in this globalized world — crazy.”

Fowler doesn’t know whether the information increased the cost of his release, but he contends it had the potential to complicate matters."
I have been both astounded and disgusted with the media coverage of terrorist activities, both during the Iraq war and after. They took the role of a fifth column to new and despicable heights, acting, as they did, as mouth pieces for every two-bit throat slasher and head chopper they could possible shill for. Free publicity for the enemy and treason against the countries in which they enjoyed freedoms that people in those repressed countries could only dream about. I've been a news junkie all my life and I've watched the lamestream media go down its long, self-inflicted decline. It was the last straw for me. It's why I put my television in storage and will only take it out some day to haul it to the recycling facility.

And it's not just the news coverage that's a turnoff. It's what passes for entertainment, too. Garbage. All of it.

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