The insane conspiracy theories of Naomi Wolf

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125. I ask myself if there is anything rational about your

fact-free posts in this very thread?

So, Naomi Wolf wants to know more about those videos than we have been told. Big deal, but this very idea seems so incendiary to you that you go on to write some pretty abusive posts.

Perhaps you shouldn't rely on petty little hit pieces on the web like the one in your OP and read what Naomi Wolf actually wrote?

A commentator below self-identified as being the New York Times reporter covering the hostage crisis. This reporter asked me to take my post about asking for confirmation of the hostage story down, as this reporter said that keeping it up is "irresponsible" and not respectful to the pain of the families involved.

The reporter wrote that there has been a news blackout requested of media for the last two years and that the abductions were known for two years to news outlets, who were respecting the blackout. The reporter also said that it is common for people in conflict areas to go from the military to nonprofit work.

So I have taken the post down pending more reporting of the questions, at which point I will include the new reporting and repost it with the new information included. I asked the reporter to contact me at [e-mail], first so I can confirm this is indeed the New York Times reporter who is covering the hostage crisis, and second because, as I wrote back, we still have several unanswered questions we have been putting to the New York Times for some weeks about this story.

First: it is helpful for us to know that there was a news blackout, according to this commentator/reporter (I gather that was reported). But it raises more questions -- if there was a news blackout that protected the hostages for the last two years, how are news outlets not endangering them by reporting so widely on the crisis now?

https://www.facebook.com/naomi.wolf.author/posts/10152722827149476

I remember many abductions in the Middle East over the decades, but not one where a "news blackout was requested of the media". The media would certainly not report on or know every detail of the negotiations, but I never heard about any total news blackout on abductions before. So, yes, it would be interesting to learn more about that aspect, too.