News Blackout on Jill Carroll Kidnapping: Email to FAIR
Introduction by Sean/iNoodle.com:
I sent the following email to Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) at 16:09 GMT (10 Jan 06). FAIR is a national media watch group in the US. I also cc:'d their UK counterpart, Media Lens.
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(cc: Media Lens, UK)
Dear FAIR Folk,
I just posted the below comment to a blog and thought I would forward my concerns to you as well.
Sincerely yours,
Sean M. Madden
[contact info removed]
Like Desi, I fully understand Jill Carroll's safety being the priority; but, I am concerned about how the mainstream media, en masse, collaborated with such efficacy to not only keep the journalist's name and news organization unidentified, but agreed, moreover, to a news blackout on the incident/situation/story itself.
As I had also figured out, Sunday, that Jill Carroll was likely the kidnapped journalist, I had to make some editorial decisions in my coverage of the story on my blog, iNoodle.com, but, ultimately, decided to leave two earlier articles online which did not identify either her name or newspaper.
Given the complicity to-date of the mainstream media in US war crimes, as well as illegal domestic surveillance going unreported for a year by the NYT despite their knowledge, I remain highly skeptical of the mainstream media's explanations and justifications.
Additionally, as E&P reports, the Christian Science Monitor made no mention in their January 10 story -- which named, for the first time, Jill Carroll as the journalist in question -- of having requested that other media outlets agree to the news blackout. This, at least, should have been explained within the story when the newspaper went public today.
Sean M. Madden | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 11:07 am | #
I sent the following email to Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) at 16:09 GMT (10 Jan 06). FAIR is a national media watch group in the US. I also cc:'d their UK counterpart, Media Lens.
(cc: Media Lens, UK)
Dear FAIR Folk,
I just posted the below comment to a blog and thought I would forward my concerns to you as well.
Sincerely yours,
Sean M. Madden
[contact info removed]
Like Desi, I fully understand Jill Carroll's safety being the priority; but, I am concerned about how the mainstream media, en masse, collaborated with such efficacy to not only keep the journalist's name and news organization unidentified, but agreed, moreover, to a news blackout on the incident/situation/story itself.
As I had also figured out, Sunday, that Jill Carroll was likely the kidnapped journalist, I had to make some editorial decisions in my coverage of the story on my blog, iNoodle.com, but, ultimately, decided to leave two earlier articles online which did not identify either her name or newspaper.
Given the complicity to-date of the mainstream media in US war crimes, as well as illegal domestic surveillance going unreported for a year by the NYT despite their knowledge, I remain highly skeptical of the mainstream media's explanations and justifications.
Additionally, as E&P reports, the Christian Science Monitor made no mention in their January 10 story -- which named, for the first time, Jill Carroll as the journalist in question -- of having requested that other media outlets agree to the news blackout. This, at least, should have been explained within the story when the newspaper went public today.
Sean M. Madden | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 11:07 am | #
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