Still Missing...

I haven't posted about this before, but a Fox News correspondent and his cameraman were abducted in the Gaza Strip on August the 14th and are still missing.  A video was released yesterday by the "Holy Jihad Brigades", a previously unknown group, showing the two sitting in a dark location saying that they are in good health.  Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig appear disheveled but not in physical distress in the video.

It must be noted that Bob Laurence of the San Diego Union-Tribune had this to say:

Fox has deliberately set itself apart from other news media. Starting at the top with Roger Ailes, the Fox sales pitch has been to deride other media, to declare itself the one source of the real truth, the sole source of 'fair and accurate' news reporting. As a result, there's not a reservoir of kinship or good will with Fox on the part of the rest of the news media. You can't keep insulting people and then expect friendship when you need it.

They've made it a policy to keep a distance between themselves and the rest of the media, far beyond the usual competitive spirit, so that's where they are: at a distance.

Not "Hopefully these fellow jounalists and citizens of the free world (Wiig is a New Zealander) can be returned unharmed", but "Serves ya right, Fox News!".  Disgusting, yet enlightening.

I, for one, join with many other bloggers and non-bloggers in calling for their release and pray that they remain unharmed.