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Welcome, scriber!
The circumstances of this interview are bizarre to say the least. Assuming the picture with the interview is legit, he was completely enshrouded except for his eyes. I’m sure Time went to great lengths to earn his trust. (Fine thing that implies – terrorists trust our media more than we do!)
Scoop, you raise a fantastic thought: What if the whole thing was a fake? But consider the alternative. If he was legit and then goes and does this act of terror that he says he was committed to carrying out, and the Time people had the power to keep that from happening but didn’t . . . Let me put it to you this way: In your military service, what would you have thought had a news magazine interviewed someone who wanted to kill you and your men and then let him go?
Twodog, I was thinking more along the lines of Tokyo Rose and her ilk than any of the great war correspondents, who are surely turning in their graves at what their successors call journalism.
posted by
WriterofLight
on June 28, 2005 at 7:18 PM
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I assume the man in question was not a complete idiot and took
precautions in case there was any inclination to have him turned over to the military by Time.
posted by
scriber
on June 28, 2005 at 3:42 PM
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Wait a minute how can you believe what TIME says, I thought the media
could not be trusted, they have been called lying liberals. What do you want them to do play police? Maybe he is a liar you know like Dan Rather and the people that fed him info.
posted by
scoop
on June 28, 2005 at 3:27 PM
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Same oh Same oh
News folks in Vietnam did the same thing. I wonder if Quenton Renolds, Ernie Pyle, or Robert Sherrod, three of the best war correspondent's of WW II, had interviews with the Japaneese at Tarawa, or Batan, or well, you get the idea.
posted by
twodog
on June 27, 2005 at 9:30 PM
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