2 articles on reporters captured by US & Iraqis in Iraq (tit for tat?)

[donsu]

first article:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001808253


Abduction of American Reporter in Iraq Blacked Out By U.S. News Outlets

The abduction of a Christian Science Monitor reporter in Iraq on Saturday was not disclosed by major U.S. media outlets for nearly two days after the Monitor requested that the incident, and the reporter's name and affiliation, be withheld. A translator was killed in the incident and the reporter, now identified by the Monitor as Jill Carroll, is still being held.

Numerous foreign news outlets and several leading wire services disclosed the incident -- and in a few cases, the reporter's name. Such stories did not appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other U.S. papers and their Web sites.

The Associated Press ran at least one story out of Baghdad, but without the newspaper or reporter's name, and it did not appear in any major newspapers Sunday or Monday. The AP held off all further reports at the request of the Monitor, which did not release the information until this afternoon. Jay Jostyn, a Monitor spokesman, told E&P it acted now -- sending an email to news organizations after 2:30 p.m. and with a story on its Web site at 3 P.M. -- because the story had by now circulated via 40 to 50 outlets abroad.

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A Google search reveals that USA Today's Web site apparently carried an AP story about the abduction on Saturday -- and then killed the link.
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2nd article:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1682208,00.html

US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist


American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children.

Ali Fadhil, who two months ago won the Foreign Press Association young journalist of the year award, was hooded and taken for questioning. He was released hours later.

Dr Fadhil is working with Guardian Films on an investigation for Channel 4's Dispatches programme into claims that tens of millions of dollars worth of Iraqi funds held by the Americans and British have been misused or misappropriated.

The troops told Dr Fadhil that they were looking for an Iraqi insurgent and seized video tapes he had shot for the programme. These have not yet been returned.
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the empirical bushmilhousegang does what ever they want - laws be damned

[CJCRANE]

1. It's a War on Journalism nt

[cantstandbush]

2. How about if they were BOTH taken by US troops?

It's possible our troops couldn't tell that the CSM reporter was not Iraqi. Any reporter reporting anything negative about the US is an enemy of the state where Bush is concerned.