BRKNG: NBC News Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel Has Gone Missing In Syria... News Blackout | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7843669 United States 12/17/2012 06:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel has gone missing in Syria, according to Turkish news reports. The reports also say that Aziz Akyava, a Turkish journalist working with Engel, is unaccounted for. NBC News has been successfully keeping Engel's status subject to a news blackout—one to which Gawker agreed until now—for at least the past 24 hours. Quoting: Dixie Normous Turkish newspaper Hurriyet is reporting that Engel and Akyavaş were last known to be in Syria and haven't been in contact with NBC News since Thursday morning. The news has been reported widely in the Turkish press over the past 24 hours, including by Turkish news channel NTV, which presents itself as an international partner of MSNBC. It's also been widely distributed on Twitter. But NBC News has been asking every reporter who inquires about the report to participate in a news blackout. It has also taken to Twitter and asked people who repeated the Turkish reports there to take them down. You can see here a screengrab of the Twitter account @NBCComm asking a Twitter user who had mentioned the reports to urgently call a cell phone number (that account has since been taken down). [link to www.hurriyet.com.tr] theyre dead. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27972246 United States 12/17/2012 06:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think it ia time for all workers in danger zones to be given the RFID chip so they can be located and extracted sooner rather than later. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29335662 You shilling for the RFID companies? Why not just put a big red bright flashing light on his head and back. He's not a Pet, nor livestock. |
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Lime Flavoured Redux User ID: 13520378 United Kingdom 12/17/2012 07:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not censorship in this case. Policy to protect a reporter's well being - and thanks for helping compromise that safety OP. He's missing, that is news. And if it was not supposed to get out, then why is it suddenly appearing all over the place, with no nbc associates coming in to say be quiet? NBC were telling people to not post about it, according to a link I can't post here. does he live in CT? a little girl by the name of Engel was one of the ones murdered on Friday Quoting: He Is Risen Indeed |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 29335662 Mexico 12/17/2012 07:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You can be sure he was not abducted by Quoting: RDprofessor the Assad government, because if he was, the Pentagon would have shouted it from the hilltops. No, he was probably taken by the FSA extemists, killed for not being a Muslim, and the Pentagon is covering it up. Also, know that "NBC" did not ask for a blackout, only the Pentagon has that power, which they exercise over all US mainstream media in real time. Steady on there, he's only missing, not killed? And whoever has him knows exactly who he his, because they lured him there. Weren't they asking for a ransom for that Ukranian reporter last week? No outcome there either... Something suspect going on, that's for sure... |
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Esoteric Morgan ...in awe of many things User ID: 26943919 United States 12/17/2012 07:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | a good deal of the info on this thread so far is incorrect at this time: Award-winning NBC News foreign correspondent Richard Engel missing in Syria since last Thursday By DAVID MCCORMACK PUBLISHED: 13:22 EST, 17 December 2012 | UPDATED: 16:17 EST, 17 December 2012 [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] "...Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports that Engel, together with Turkish journalist Aziz Akyavaş, were last known to be in Syria and haven't been in contact with NBC News since Thursday morning. While the Turkish media have been circulating the report for several days, American outlets had been operating under a news blackout requested by NBC until today..." Last Edited by esotericMorgan on 12/17/2012 07:59 PM -- TRUST THE PLAN -- .......WWG1WGA...... ____________________________ still in awe of many things |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29335662 Mexico 12/17/2012 08:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think it ia time for all workers in danger zones to be given the RFID chip so they can be located and extracted sooner rather than later. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29335662 You shilling for the RFID companies? Why not just put a big red bright flashing light on his head and back. He's not a Pet, nor livestock. Nor is he found... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 30108220 United States 12/17/2012 09:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Engel has pushed his luck before and gotten into tight situations to get the story. I can't stand NBC but he's a good reporter. Hope that fellow turns up and is OK. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30108220 his head will turn up! I hope you're wrong but the heads are rolling in Syria big time these days. He should have kept his ass on the Turk/Syrian border with a bunch of guards like all the other MSM reporters. |
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