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2007-04-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Paleo journos strike in solidarity for Beeb reporter

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-04-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Much like the comity shared between sharks and lawyers this is merely another case of professional courtesy.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-03 00:08|| 2007-04-03 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 a friend of the Palestinians and conveyor of the truth

How'd he manage that?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-04-03 01:17|| 2007-04-03 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 a friend of the Palestinians and conveyor of the truthiness

There, fixed it.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-03 01:21|| 2007-04-03 01:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Maan had this interesting little tidbit yeaterday..

Local collaboration

Israeli media sources have claimed that Johnston is being held by the Dughmush clan in the Gaza Strip, with the cooperation of local Gaza photographers.

In the Friday edition of the Israeli daily 'Maariv', it was alleged that "a spontaneous amalgamation of local Gaza photographers" are behind the kidnapping of foreign photo-journalists. The presence of foreign journalists threatens the local journalists' livelihoods as freelance work is taken away from them and carried out by foreign, highly-paid, correspondents.

However, Maariv adds that Johnston appears to have the support of the majority of the local Palestinian journalists. Fran Unsworth, the head of BBC news-gathering, told Maariv that local journalists "are helping very much to secure his release." Abd Al-Askar, who, according to Maariv, represents several foreign media organizations in Gaza, said, "Johnston is a friend of the Palestinian journalists."

Unsworth would not confirm that Johnston was being held by the Dughmush family. Maariv claimed that the Dughmush family is the main beneficiary from these kidnapping operations, alleging that they receive up to US $2 million in ransom money for the release of a foreign journalist. Maariv alleges that the American news network, Fox News, paid out this amount to secure the release of US correspondent Steve Centanni and New Zealander photographer Olaf Wiig last summer.

...and you thought the Teamsters were hard asses?

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-03 10:55|| 2007-04-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

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