The entire mainstream media is a mass of hypocrisy

[phanatic]

Man, oh man, aren't they congratulating themselves over keeping it a secret that an NYT reporter was kidnapped by the Taliban:

David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan

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[quba]

You should clean this up and send it in to a few Op/Eds.

[achinhibitor]

If they were paid a half a million dollars and were guaranteed to get off scot free, most people would have no problem killing you. They've done surveys on this. -- "You Are Worthless"

[vaderstg]

There was a story, though I'm too lazy to search for the link now, that the driver joined the Taliban - which would make the concern for his life understandably less.

Also, I like the argument, in theory. That said - Mike Wallace isn't the NYT, so I won't say that he speaks for the whole media establishment. However the NYT has had zero problem publishing stories which endangered the lives of soldiers and increased the difficulty of the war effort tremendously. I would use instances of the NYT's own hypocrisy here for a more substantive argument.