the putingang drugged reporters at school seizure

[donsu]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0921/p01s03-woeu.html

Russia uses KGB playbook on press
Reporters covering Beslan say they were drugged by officials.



Like scores of her colleagues, Georgian television journalist Nana Lezhava reported on the terrorist school seizure at Beslan.

But her coverage ended in arrest by the FSB, Russia's security service once known as the KGB. Tests show she was drugged during interrogation - one of several incidents that are raising questions about Russian handling of the media.

Officials have acknowledged deliberately downplaying hostage and casualty numbers. A top newspaper editor in Moscow has been fired for "emotional" coverage; even one of Russia's state-controlled TV broadcasters has complained of lack of truth. And two known Kremlin critics were prevented from reaching Beslan at all, by KGB-style methods.

"When Nana was interrogated by FSB officials, she was offered a cup of coffee," says Tudu Kurtgelia, head of news for Georgia's Rustavi-2 TV. "She was told they added some cognac to the coffee and she lost her senses. She doesn't remember anything, and only came to a day later, in hospital."
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the article goes on to tell of a journalist in a plane going to the school site, asked for a cup of tea and ended up like the other one.

this is a long article full of details of how the putingang is BBBT&Ming the media

(bully, bribe, blackmail, threaten, murder)

no wonder our media is scared to death - nobody has their back

[JuniorPlankton]

1. So, we have it easy in the US :)

But give it time...

[yellerpup]

2. Reminds me of the mother of a seaman on the sunken sub

When she stood to protest, a "nurse" slipped up behind her and injected her with a hypo.