Engel

[dando]

In case any one missed it, NBC foreign reporter Richard Engel and his crew were taken hostage last Thurs in Syria. NBC embargoed the news on this until yesterday, a day after he and his crew escaped from their captors. :thumbup:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NBC_ENGEL_MEDIA_BLACKOUT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-12-18-18-20-21

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/freed-nbc-journalist-richard-engel-big-get-on-tuesdays-today-show/2012/12/18/0c266bce-492f-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_blog.html

:eek:

I tend to watch NBC Nightly News and have always respected Engel for his reporting in places no one would be willing go to voluntarily. I've always thought in the back of my mind that he will either be killed while reporting or something like this would happen. I'm guessing he needs a change of undies. ;)

-Kevin

[Elmo T]

Mock executions mentioned on yesterday AM news. :irked:

Sounds like the kidnappers bought it when they came across the rebel checkpoint.

[dando]

Mock executions mentioned on yesterday AM news. :irked:

Sounds like the kidnappers bought it when they came across the rebel checkpoint.

I'm amazed that NBC kept it quiet for so long. :eek: Yes, they came across a rebel checkpoint and managed to escape during a fire fight b/w the rebels and the Syrian army/militia. The stories he told of mock executions were just amazing (choose which of you will be shot first, random firing around the same time, etc.). :saywhat:

-Kevin

[Andrew Longman]

As news organizations, driven by cost cutting and profit motives of their parent organization/stockholders), close their foreign station and agencies, people like Engle and his crew are becoming rarer and rarer. And all the more precious.

I've always been amazed at what these guys (and gals) will walk into to get a story. And there is no crying or complaining about it.

But don't minimize what our local reporters do. My older brother is a journalist (usually about health care and generational equity issues) and has received death threats for some of his work over the years. That includes overt threats and something as simple as a dead cat put in his parking space at a Florida magazine he was writing for because he was investigating the ins and outs of hurricane insurance in the state (prior to Andrew, which proved his warnings).

[chop456]

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a dead cat in a parking space around here.

[Napoleon]

My older brother is a journalist (usually about health care and generational equity issues) . . . .

And here I though he and his wife were models that appear on magazine covers.

[Andrew Longman]

And here I though he and his wife were models that appear on magazine covers.naw. Though he and his wife were on the cover of Washington Monthly last summer. Google Phillip Longman. Krugman quoted him last week in his NYT piece


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/opinion/krugman-robots-and-robber-barons.html?_r=0

[Don Quixote]

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a dead cat in a parking space around here.OFF TOPIC! Take it to the meat smoking thread.

[Napoleon]

Though he and his wife were on the cover of Washington Monthly last summer. Google Phillip Longman. Krugman quoted him last week in his NYT piece

I saw that, but since I didn't see it until the day after his column originally ran I never mentioned it to you since I figured someone would have mentioned it to you by then, and hey, slacker, by the way he has a wiki page as well ;).

http://s3.amazonaws.com/wamo/mag/1207/1207_glastris-longman_article.jpg

[Andrew Longman]

BTW that is not their kitchen. I have no idea where they shot that. But those are typical modes for Phil and Sandy