On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
George you would have to show that, the action of suppression had a
causative effect.
But no one has shown that.? Rather what's happened is that a big ethics
debate has erupted over learning that the NYTimes actively recruits others
media outlets to suppress stories for some vague claim of protecting
something or other.? What's not in evidence is exactly what they think
suppressing from the general public, information already known to the
captors, could possibly do.
You may not understand it, but given that you appear to be the minority
perhaps you should consider that you may not be correct. There is no debate
about conveying facts to the captors that they don't already know. The
simple point is that making it public and giving the kidnapping a much
higher profile would have fundamentally changed the dynamics of the
situation, and not in a good way.
Nathan