I found this an interesting read Sunday morning.
While I'm glad the reporter is safe, I was struck by something else. The Times article had this sentence about midway through:
Until now, the kidnapping has been kept quiet by The Times and other media organizations out of concern for the men’s safety.
Say what?
There's nothing wrong with that. In fact I think it was smart. But I find it very interesting that the New York Times deemed it OK not to report the story. If I remember correctly The Times is the same newspaper that published the Pentagon Papers, the NSA terrorist eavesdropping program and the Abu Ghraib prison photos among other questionable national security "scoops". Apparently I wasn't the only one who was struck by that fact.
Full disclosure: I read The Times every Sunday morning online. But I think they're being hypocritical to publish national secrets, etc while they don't publish news about their own employees. That's a double standard that I don't think they can justify. Of course they don't have to either. They're the media.
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