media muzzling

I was reading an interview with Jill Caroll, the "freelance" Islamophiliac writer who was kidnapped and held in Iraq for three months. Of course her ordeal will turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to her career. Nevermind the fact that her abject stupidity placed her in harms way, got her driver killed and gave the enemy a worldwide platform to distribute their insanity. For some reason journalists, even credential-less ones, gain notoriety when they come out on the back end of a kidnapping ordeal. "Jill Caroll: A survival story" will ineviditably be in hardback by the fall and she'll have a lifetime TV network movie option soon there after. She will make the talk show circuit and flaunt her emotional family on Larry King and the other late night talking heads. Maybe she'll think up a clever "reality" series.. Like planting hungry journalists in the Congo to interview gorillas or something as equally dangerous and ignorant. Anything to extend her 15 minues will do.

I've read her kidnapping account in the CS Monitor and it's poorly written, informationless and not of interest, like the rest of her work... if you can find it. She does some serious backpaddling too...trying to save her public soul from the damning comments she made towards America during her captivity. Of couse she was making those comments LONG before she spent time "against her will" in Iraq.

Lets stop celebertizing journalists. It's their job. If they get nabbed in the process, lets pray for their safe return but not glorify them into media god status and continually waste important news real estate on them for weeks to come.