[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/6/29 Sam Blacketer <sam.blacketer at googlemail.com>:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> While I cannot speak for the New York Times, Canadian media have acted in
>> the same way to protect members of NGOs who have been kidnapped.
>
>
> There's a two-year-old ongoing kidnapping in Iraq involving five Britons - a
> consultant and four security guards. The consultant was named immediately
> but the security guards were not; eventually their first names only were
> released*. That embargo has held through the British media and no foreign
> media has broken it either.

Do you know it was an embargo and not simply that they didn't have the
information?