Anyone else notice how silent the DBM has been on Centanni's kidnapping? If it had been someone from CNN, MSDNC or one of broadcast networks or the NYT who was kidnapped, we'd be getting 24/7 updates, as well as the obligatory tearful interviews with his family and friends.
A lot of people here were disgusted by the DUmmies and the KOmmies gleefully celebrating this kidnapping and hoping that Centanni's beheading would soon be out on video. I'll bet that if you were in just about any DBM newsroom today, you'd find similar, but more restrained, gloating.
I don't think anyone left in the drive by has a shred of decency left.
I'm afraid they are anxious for some tragedy to occur..........which they will, of course, blame on President Bush and his minions on Fox.
There is no depth to which they cannot sink.
Fox's VP has E-Mailed everyone insisting no further reporting be done on this while negotiations are underway. I heard this on Fox Radio News at 5:30 AM, and did not hear of it again on any 1/2 hourly broadcast throughout the day ( to my annoyance). Then I realized that decision wasn't a "news" one, but a "tactical" one.
Fox has the lead. He's their guy, and any negotiations are their deal. Everyone else has as much or as little information as they choose to release, and defers to them on how much to trumpet the story. It was the same with the Christian Science Monitor when Jill Carroll was held captive.
A lot of people here were disgusted by the DUmmies and the KOmmies gleefully celebrating this kidnapping and hoping that Centanni's beheading would soon be out on video.
I missed that, but if your description is accurate, count me among the disgusted. The free flow of accurate information is essential to an informed democracy, and anyone who risks life and limb in pursuit of it is a hero. No matter what you think of his politics or the politics of the folks he works for.
Anyone who's cheering for the death of Steve Centanni -- or for Wolf Blitzer or Geraldo Rivera or Christianne Amanpour or Major Garrett or Dan Rather or Seymour Hersh, if it had come down differently -- is an idiot not worthy of the effort to pi... erm, urinate on him if he were on fire.
I'll bet that if you were in just about any DBM newsroom today, you'd find similar, but more restrained, gloating.
Not a bit. Not a scintilla. You're dead f'n wrong there. Every major news org has someone who's worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Centanni. They've swapped jokes, bought each other beers, stayed in the same third-world hotels and choked on the same dust. He's 60 years old, so he has plenty of former assistants, interns and other proteges scattered throughout the industry. There but for the grace of God ...
Every journalist remotely worthy of the title is praying, or if they don't pray, hoping, for Steve Centanni's safe return. Competition only goes so far. I'm a lifelong Atlanta Braves fan, but at the most heated point of the Braves-Yankees rivalry, I never wanted Joe Torre murdered. It's like that.