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“><\/td>\n\nhoped for something from the blogosphere,
\nbut alas only this one post from the Right Truth<\/a>
\nwith a belated rehash of mainstream reportage.
\nI question Minister Jabr’s identification of the
\nkidnappers. The demand for the release of a
\nsmall number of women detainees is much more
\nfocussed and limited in scope than any other
\ndemand from Iraqi insurgent groups. It seems like
\na different group. And Mr. Jabr certainly has a
\npersonal stake in the matter. Regardless of who
\nis holding her, it would not serve their interests
\nto kill her and keep it a secret. I may not agree
\nwith Mr. Jabr about who is holding her but
\nI agree with his conclusion. She is alive.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nrelease white balloons into the air, symbolizing
\ntheir prayers for the release of Jill Carrol<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
As Dan Kennedy pointed out some days ago<\/a> in his blog Media Nation, the mainstream media cannot appear overlyself-absorbed. Presumably that partially explains the silence leading up to the Feb. 26 deadline. Also, the U.S. Government probably convinced the media that attention would jeopordize attempts to rescue her. I think the reverse is true, which is why I flapped about it. I know I am but a butterfly in the winds of the world wide web, but the web is a complex nonlinear system. It probably has directions in which it has sensitive dependence on initial conditions. A butterfly flapping his wings in one place can cause a typhon on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n There was some mainstream coverage around the time of the deadline and the blogosphere essentially followed suit. The silence returned. There is a problem of fatigue. How many ‘no news’ news bits are people willing to read? Even the guy by the door has to worry about that.<\/p>\n Perhaps the techtopian dream of ordinary people all over the world<\/a> breaking down the barriers of space, time, censorship, and hatred has not been realized in Iraq well enough to help Jill. Or perhaps it’s unreasonable to try to create a typhon in place where there is one already going on<\/a>.Apparently the previously reported detente between the Sunni’s and the Shia<\/a> was a mere flash in the pan. TV coverage on one of the Boston channels compared an early video tape of Jill with the last one received. I agree with their male terrorism expert. She did appear frightened to distraction in the early tape and calm and resolute in the latter. He opined that she is her own best instrument of survival. This may be self-serving for those who won’t dothe right thing to save her. It may be self-serving for those of us who have run out of improbable ideas to help her. But it is probably true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “> Nothing new from the Mainstream Media. I had hoped for something from the blogosphere, but alas only this one post from the Right Truth with a belated rehash of mainstream reportage. I question Minister Jabr’s identification of the kidnappers. The demand for the release of a small number of women detainees is much more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sand-oil-and-tears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}