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UPDATE
DOUBLE STANDARD
OR
DOUBLE INDEMINTY?
CANADIAN TV REPORTER
FREED IN AFGHANISTAN
TELLS OF PRISONER EXCHANGE
SHOULD THE NEWS MEDIA HAVE REMAINED SILENT?
(Nov 8th, 2008 9:00AM PST)
BY ERS NEWS
By all accounts Mellissa Fung is a courageous woman. She was stabbed, kidnapped and held hostage outside Kabul, Afghanistan since October 12, 2008. She spent nearly four weeks being hidden by her captors in a tiny dirt hole, routinely blindfolded and chained. Her story and ordeal were described in a lengthy interview broadcast on the Canadian TV just days ago
You can also read this Canadian Press interview transcript with Fung. transcript
Fung’s kidnapping was known by over two dozen western media outlets at some point after it happened on Oct 12, 2008. None of those news organizations reported her kidnapping. ERSNews.com, The Enterprise Report was among those news organizations. A source had alerted us to her kidnapping and was questioning why media outlets had agreed in censoring in any news about her case. This news blackout was the result of the direct request of the CBC, Canada’s national TV channel. ERS, as well as other news media outlets, withheld what we new about the case. We did so because of the direct request made by the CBC. Their rational was that any news of her capture could interfere with on going negotiations at the time to secure her safe release. That plea was honored by our news organization as well as others, but not without debate, trepidation and concern for a clear double standard. Did the CBC and other news outlets follow that same approach in other cases? The clear answer was no. Why was this case different? Before we got a clear answer, Fung was released.
The complete details of how Fung’s release came about are still sketchy. Fung has confirmed that part of the deal to secure her freedom was an agreement by Afghan intelligence to release jailed suspects related to the kidnappers.
The full story has yet to be told, but for Fung her harrowing ordeal is now over.
EXCLUSIVE
BREAKING NEWS
Canadian CBC Television Reporter taken hostage in Afghanistan Freed.
(Nov 8th, 2008 9:00AM PST)
BY ERS NEWS
Reporter Mellissa Fung was taken hostage in Afghanistan some weeks ago by Insurgents.
She was freed and is safely at the Canadian Embassy according to sources.
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