"Reliable Sources" | Washington Post | CJR
Howard Kurtz asks the Post's Jackie Spinner if there's a different set of reporting rules when a journalist is involved in a kidnapping. Her response: "I don't think that we treated [kidnapped Christian Science Monitor reporter] Jill Carroll any differently than we've treated anybody else. The Christian peacekeepers who were kidnapped several months ago, the press didn't report that, you know, for four days. There have been other incidents where we have not reported. And, you know, if I got a call from the American military or from a company that said, please, give us a day to try to save this person's life, I would certainly consider that, just as much as I would consider if I got a call from a news organization." (Related Kurtz column and CJR piece.)
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