Rohde's remark suggests that other press blackouts, like the one enforced for seven month by the New York Times as it tried to negotiate Rohde's release, are currently in place regarding abducted reporters.
As mentioned earlier: New York Times reporter David Rohde managed to escape his Taliban captors to freedom last night by hopping over a wall. He was imprisoned for seven months. How wasn't this widely reported? Even by us? Simple:
Does Us Weekly even have a London bureau? No matter, because even without one, the magazine had the scoop on Prince Harry's deployment to Afghanistan and acknowledged that they were part of the embargo. The New York Times, which actually has several reporters in Afghanistan, didn't even know that Prince Harry's…
