American Journalist Death more about Over-zealous Media than Failed Rescue
Has anyone else noticed that journalist’s deaths follow closely after news reports about that individual and posted interviews with that journalist’s family. I thought at first it was just another one of my senior moments but think about it. For over a year, Luke Somers were held as a captive in Yemen but no one knew anything about it in the public domain because no one was reporting on it. Only after news agencies began to paste this man’s photo and story all over the news did he lose his life. Makes me wonder if those who held him were privy to the information media had accumulated. Another tact that the media has taken is to consider this a failed rescue attempt implying that the rescue attempt caused Mr. Somers’ death. I’ve got to wonder what makes this rescue attempt a failure. Was it because they did not bring him back alive or was it because someone knew they were coming before they got there? There must be something because many new...