Maybe I'm Just Being Snitty ...

NEW YORK The abduction of a Christian Science Monitor reporter in Iraq on Saturday was not disclosed by major U.S. media outlets for nearly two days after the Monitor requested that the incident, and the reporter's name and affiliation, be withheld. -- Editor & Publisher

Well, the media are certainly quick to hold news when it protects their own.

Still, whatever can be done to protect Jill Carroll should be done. I wouldn't want to have the name Christian Science Monitor anywhere around me if I were being held hostage in Iraq.