What is The Age’s correspondent Ed O’Loughlin trying to accomplish with this snippet about the search for Alan Johnston?
No foreign journalist or aid worker has been harmed by Palestinian militants since the uprising against Israel that began in October 2000, although several have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces.
Jaime Razuri, Emilio Morenatti Steve Centanni, Olaf Wiig, Caroline Laurent, Alfred Yaghobzadeh, Yong Tae-young, Mohamed Ouathi, Dion Nissenbaum, Adam Pletts, James Bennett, Riad Ali, and Josh Hammer weren’t physically harmed, but their freedom was physically restricted for hours or days. Why does O’Loughlin whitewash their ordeals?
O’Loughlin also omits the Palestinian journalists caught in the middle of the violent Hamas-Fatah battle for PA media supremacy.
(Hat tip: The Blank Pages of the Age)
