NYTimes and Wikipedia save the lives of journalists silence
Last week, a NYTimes journalist managed to escape from captivity - the Taliban held him hostage for seven months. However, the public had no idea about this - by joint efforts of NYTimes and Wikipedia, this story was kept secret until the very escape.
In November 2008, David Rod and local journalist Tahir Lyudin, as well as the driver who accompanied the journalists, captured the Taliban. Rod’s native publication quite logically reasoned that the wide publicity of the abduction could complicate the negotiations — the kidnappers would make more and more uncompromising and less and less realistic demands. All this time, the editors of the Times restrained more than 35 leading news agencies from the publication of messages about Kin. The editorial staff believed that silence would not only help save the life of a journalist, but also lead to the “inflation” of the value of a reporter’s life, which would make it possible to buy it out for the money available.
It turned out to be more difficult to restrain information in the vastness of Wikipedia - an unknown resident of Florida during all this time edited thematic articles, where he tried to post news about the stay of David Rod in captivity. The editors of Wikipedia gloriously coped with the task - all this time they constantly moderated the messages and did not allow the information to seep into the Web.
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This happened right up to last week - Rod and Lyudin managed to escape. It is worth noting the fact that the driver took the side of the Taliban and decided to stay with them. Perhaps the role of the NYTimes and Wikipedia in this matter was not huge, but one thing is clear - their actions gave journalists not only additional time to escape, but also made its conditions more favorable. ( c )
In November 2008, David Rod and local journalist Tahir Lyudin, as well as the driver who accompanied the journalists, captured the Taliban. Rod’s native publication quite logically reasoned that the wide publicity of the abduction could complicate the negotiations — the kidnappers would make more and more uncompromising and less and less realistic demands. All this time, the editors of the Times restrained more than 35 leading news agencies from the publication of messages about Kin. The editorial staff believed that silence would not only help save the life of a journalist, but also lead to the “inflation” of the value of a reporter’s life, which would make it possible to buy it out for the money available.
It turned out to be more difficult to restrain information in the vastness of Wikipedia - an unknown resident of Florida during all this time edited thematic articles, where he tried to post news about the stay of David Rod in captivity. The editors of Wikipedia gloriously coped with the task - all this time they constantly moderated the messages and did not allow the information to seep into the Web.
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This happened right up to last week - Rod and Lyudin managed to escape. It is worth noting the fact that the driver took the side of the Taliban and decided to stay with them. Perhaps the role of the NYTimes and Wikipedia in this matter was not huge, but one thing is clear - their actions gave journalists not only additional time to escape, but also made its conditions more favorable. ( c )
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/63178/
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