[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[Nathan]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, <wjhonson at 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