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[jsmirman]

80. No - not the Mexico story

I'm referring to the period between October 17th and (his capture on) November 19th, when I read just about everything spanning from him turning into a unicorn and escaping to him being turned into a toad and captured in someone's diorama.

This period, obviously, was when the regime had crumbled, so there was no Rixos-lock.

Regrettably, even Al Jazeera really had nothing as to where Saif was, or what his circumstances were.

(Was there an earlier Mexico story than this recent one? I heard a range of bordering countries, a variety of regions, news of his being surrounded, then crossing a border, then completely free and clear and out of the reach of the new government, etc., but never Mexico during that period)

I understand your concept about circumspect reporting, and yes, I am much more interested in the contents of a story that does not appear to have been sensationalized, but I don't even trust the Associated Press anymore.

It's likely that Sports is still the area of the news/world that I know most about, and in the past few years, I have read stories from the AP that I know to be terrible representations of the reality of a story.

I certainly try to find the middle of the various stories, but I think I served myself well in the case of Saif Gaddafi during that month by concluding that the story was simple - no one saying anything had a fucking clue where he was. So I just stopped listening until there was a report that was obviously, at last, true, and there was video and pictures.