Michelle Malkin has the right idea regarding the missing Fox news journalists; create a buzz in the blogosphere to keep their plight front and center.
Fox and other news outlets are downplaying the kidnapping, hoping not to exacerbate the situation by giving massive amounts of publicity to the kidnappers which would probably encourage them to hold on to the Yank and the Kiwi in order to milk the notoriety of their crime.
That said, we can certainly do our best to remember them and let their families know that we haven’t forgotten about them.
Michelle reports that Fox management, the journalist’s families, and surprisingly, Palestinian journalists are all working hard for their release. One would hope that our State Department would also be working for a quick resolution as well. (Note: State would have to be working through third parties since we’re not talking to Hamas although I would hope that our government has contact with the PA on some level.)
Michelle questions why the dearth of news on the kidnapped journalists. One would think if an American reporter working for a big time daily or one of the other major nets were kidnapped, there at least would be some updates, some acknowledgement of the situation.
Judging by what this fellow has to say, maybe it’s a good thing that no one is opening their mouths:
Fox has deliberately set itself apart from other news media. Starting at the top with Roger Ailes, the Fox sales pitch has been to deride other media, to declare itself the one source of the real truth, the sole source of ‘fair and accurate’ news reporting. As a result, there’s not a reservoir of kinship or good will with Fox on the part of the rest of the news media. You can’t keep insulting people and then expect friendship when you need it.They’ve made it a policy to keep a distance between themselves and the rest of the media, far beyond the usual competitive spirit, so that’s where they are: at a distance.
This from media critic Bob Laurence of the San Diego Union-Trib. He must also be the President of the local Union of Louts, Lickspittles, and Losers. It pains me to find out from Mr. Laurence that there is no “reservoir of kinship or good will” for human beings who are in mortal danger of their lives from a bunch of cutthroats. The fact that one of the victims of this unconscionable crime is an American also apparently doesn’t rate any feelings of kinship or good will from that great humanitarian and philistine Mr. Laurence.
And to pretend that the news business is not hyper competitive with the nets savaging each other regularly in order to acquire any edge they can (so much for “kinship”) is to either demonstrate a naivete that calls into question Mr. Laurence’s credentials as an adult or a delusional personality more suited for weaving baskets in a mental ward.
Wouldn’t common decency demand a little “good will” toward a fellow journalist in distress? How about simple human kindness? One would hope that our “reservoir” for such feelings wouldn’t depend on being filled by who we work for or what our politics are.
But for bitter, envious, loutish people like Bob Laurence, the well is dry of human decency.
6:48 pm
Still Missing – Blogburst
E’ passata ormai più di una settimana dal rapimento, a Gaza, del giornalista di Fox News, Steve Centanni, e del cameramen freelance, Olaf Wiig. Sui mainstream media è calato un vergognoso silenzio (sono soltanto dipendenti di Fox News, mica della CNN…
6:53 pm
“Look Bernie, of course there’s a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left.”—CBS NEWS President Andrew Heyward, to six-time EMMY award winner Bernard Goldberg. FOX News is not part of the liberal-left broadcast media and, therefore, is not subject to decent treatment in any form by the horrid liberal media. Common decency does not extend to FOX News nor any news outlet that strays from the liberal-left propaganda that the old print and broadcast media call “news”. It is a common character defect of the liberal, who while professing the most high-minded, decent standards of behavior, will in reality kick and stomp the opposition while they are down. In this case, the petulant liberal news outlets simply ignore the plight of the missing FOX News journalists.
7:17 pm
Rick, the media blackout is, like you said, on purpose, just like what was done during Jill Caroll’s kidnapping. It’s a psychological tactic designed to play down the hostages’ importance and maybe persuade the kidnappers to release them.
11:14 pm
Or maybe the other outlets are actually doing what Fox is doing, and keeping things on the down low for a reason?
I mean, that’s just a plausible. But I guess it’s not as fun as just making sh*t up about people you don’t like.
2:50 am
Make up? Make up what?
I criticize a guy whose arrogance drips from every word, a guy whose writing I supply a link to.
Just because you don’t have any more decency than he has doesn’t mean I’m making anything up.
5:21 am
Rick, I enjoyed reading your post and you had every right to critcize that loser as he is most arrogant.
I intend to let these families know I am thinking of them and I’d do the the same if it were spittin chris matthews, turn around joe scarbourgh or little bow tied up tucker, it just called human decency.
12:06 pm
That guy is disturbed. How anybody can defend it, plunged, is beyond my comprehension.
Everything that happened before is destined to happen again – domestic politics as bloodsport. Sick.
12:33 pm
The whole situation is nothing short of disgraceful. The worst part is the various apologists for the terrorists who commited the crime. The disregard for the lives of FOX journalists in the name of petty anti-Bush sentiments is almost unbelievable.
Considering places like DemocraticUnderground, maybe it isn’t so unbelievable.
The UN are culpable here for not lifting a finger to disarm Hamas and Hezbollah. By being so weak they are giving license for fringe terror groups to commit these crimes. On top of that, terrorist groups know that appeasing Westerners are worth testing yet again.
Shame on those who do not recognize the gravity of this crime.
Shame.
4:05 pm
They’re alive
Just shortly after Michelle Malkin posted a special blogburst for supporting Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, news has come out that they’re alive, and a video’s been released in which the Islamothugs who kidnapped them are demanding the release of “Mu…
5:26 pm
I was most pleased to see the video and glad that they appear fine but they looked very nervous, which I can understand.
It is strange that nobody knows the losers who took them.
It is heartening to know that MOST of the Palestenians and the higher ups there are embarrassed and asking for their immed.
release, please yall, just keep praying for their safe return.
9:46 pm
There is no bigger critic of Fox News Channel than I. I post about their antics daily at my blog.
But even I took a break to post a hopeful message once news of their video broke today.
http://www.eyesonfox.org/?p=42
11:34 am
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