An fascinating thing from Boing Boing

[diamond_geyser]

November 10, 2008
A New York Times reporter, David Rohde, is kidnapped by the Taliban. The Times decide to try to keep the story quiet, meaning Rohde's captors have less of a publicity bounty.

November 12, 2008
A reporter friend - Michael Moss - edits Rohde's Wikipedia page to big up his Muslim-synpathetic work.
“I knew from my jihad reporting

Comments

[icecoldinalex]

Christ, wikinazis are lovely people, aren't they?

I wonder what the wikipedia entry for "Nnnnnnnngh!" is?

[diamond_geyser]

[amuchmoreexotic]

To be fair, though, the people trying to add the news of the kidnap were just trying to make an accurate encyclopaedia. They probably didn't realise about the need to keep it quiet.

It's interesting that Wikipedia agreed to go along with this. I wonder if they would comply with a D-Notice type blackout request from a government, rather than a request from a newspaper?