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(BTW, how much do I love you for the Frankenhooker reference??) #andreapeyser
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Not that Peyser is sane, but Rohde's article is worthy of critique, and I've been glad to see that some are doing it. Peyser isn't the best example of this, but there are some decent critiques floating around out there. #andreapeyser
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10/19/09
OK.
I understand Gawker wants to publish stories fast and let them develop. [www.theawl.com] And hats off, John, for pointing out the possible explanations, what you know and what you don't. But that comes at the end of a long post under a headline about "the great falsehood."
The publication of Rohde's story makes this is a great time for Times editors to answer your questions. Maybe this post will pressure them to do so. But I for one would like to know how long you waited to hear back before calling them out.
10/19/09
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Was the importance of a kidnapping story of a journalist (whose name was unfamiliar) to most THAT much more important than the chance that his life could be saved? I guess I don't understand why this is even an issue for Gawker or anyone - the NY Times had a reporter being held in tribal Pakistan, where (after the fact) the reporter says the story, situation, and players changed regularly. Who WOULDN'T have vilified the Times if he'd been killed once the story got it?
One of the kidnappers wanted to "eat the flesh of someone who worked with the West". Really, do they sound rational? Why fu** with them from the comfort of your office? #davidrohde
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Maybe from your media bubble it makes sense to equate the NYT p.r. machine's prevarications with the Taliban's. But what would give you the right to decide whether this story was news? If you had gone live with it, and he had been killed or whisked deeper into captivity in Waziristan, how would you have lived with yourselves?
To the guy who was held almost incommunicado for 7 months and was in fear of his and his companions lives the entire time, your regret at lost page views over outing his ordeal must seem at once juvenile and monstrous. #davidrohde
10/20/09
"I had heard before our abduction that the Afghan and foreign news media had struck an informal agreement not to publicize the kidnappings of journalists in Afghanistan if their organization requested it.
"The October 2008 kidnapping of a Canadian journalist in Kabul, Melissa Fung, had been kept quiet. Keeping the kidnappings out of the news, it was hoped, would decrease the expectations of hostage-takers that they could garner vast amounts of publicity or ransom for journalists." #davidrohde
10/19/09
Yet, I can't even travel by train across New Jersey without repeatedly having my call dropped. #davidrohde
09/10/09
Krakauer's book about Pat Tillman is a definite bestseller. NFL player. Hero. Cover-up.