Thursday, March 30, 2006

Jill Carroll Release: Stockholm Syndrome?

The Washington Post has an article which rightly celebrates the release of the CSM stringer unharmed. The Post elevates to the second paragraph the fact that Carroll "was treated very well." No mention of her translator , who was murdered by her humane captors until deep into the article.

The WaPo mentions at the very last paragraph as in passing the recent rash of kidnappings, leaving to the very last sentence of the article:
A fourth member of the group who was kidnapped then, Tom Fox, of Clear Brook, Va., was shot dead and dumped on a Baghdad street in early March.

Left unsaid by the Post was the fact that Fox's body showed signs of brutal torture before he was murdered.

But to be fair, the vapid fatuous band of ninnies who sent Fox to Iraq also did not mention the torture of their colleague when his three non-American colleagues were released.

I guess that would be inflammatory, or is journalism now just a handmaiden of the helping-profession psychobabble multiculturalists? Abu Gharaib is a horrible Nazi atrocity---kidnappings and murders by terrorists, oh well, they have issues with foreigners and besides, they occasionally release their victims after treating them well. The Oprahization of terrorists will continue and I expect to hear that Jill will be a guest of the Queen of Daytime TV, possibly with a car and driver as a gift, although I don't know if Oprah can scrape up a translator-gift for Jill.

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