Two CBS Reporters Missing in Iraq
The city of Basra.
According to the Associated Press, two journalists with CBS News are missing in the Iraqi city of Basra.
CBS has put out the following statement:
Two journalists working for CBS News in Basra are missing. All efforts are underway to find them and until we learn more details, CBS News requests that others do not speculate on the identities of those involved. CBS News has been in touch with the families and asks that their privacy be respected.
This news story was running on the front page off BBC News International and Foxnews.com among other news sites this morning. It has been pulled off of all those sites. This paired with the fact that CBS isn't running anything on their own site and has refused to name the reporters, feels uneasily like CBS has had some pretty senior reporters kidnapped.
WHAT BUSINESS DO CBS REPORTERS HAVE POKING THEIR NOSES AROUND IN IRAQ?
Journalists of the world have every right to poke their nose in everything. Get your head out of the sand.
What Business does an uneducated ignoramus have poking their nose around the WWW? Has there really been no update to this story? it must be Bogus
We are praying for the 2 CBS reporters that were kidnapped in Basrah and hope for their safe release, we have 5 missing from the Basrah area also. They have been gone for 15 months, 4 americans and 1 austrian. We know how you feel Hang in there.
I find it pretty ironic that reporters poke their noses into EVERYTHING, leave NOONE alone, and then ask that THEIR privacy be respected at this time. I hope they remember the next time someone asks to have his or her privacy respected.
Having said that, I too, pray for the one who is still missing and the ones who were already missing, as well as all of our Military personnel.
It's been 36 days since CBS barely reported this kidnapping incident. How about an update for the loyal viewers who may be concerned and interested about the status of those reporters. Thier names would be a good start.