Danzigger: Professional Courtesy
A long time ago, I wrote about the conflict between citizenship and the modern self-conception of journalism. I was critical of journalists who felt that somehow they were above the shared obligations of citizenship, and that their obligation was only to, as Mike Wallace would put it, “…[whatever] story they were there to cover.”
That issue is about to get an interesting wringing out, as it turns out that a courageous NY Times reporter was kidnapped at the Pakistan/Afghanistan border last fall, was held hostage by the Taliban, and recently – with amazing pluck and luck – escaped into the welcome arms of some nearby US soldiers.
Now that’s a great story; not only an amazing drama in the kidnapping, and adventure in captivity, and now one with the happiest of endings.
But we weren’t told it until the story was over. Joe Strupp in E & P, explains that all of the professional US media kept a lid on the story:
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