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...taken over by Gazprom, the state-controlled energy monopoly. Its management was gutted, and most of its news staff jumped over to TV-6. Then the country's best news radio station, Ekho Moskvy, staved off a hostile takeover by Gazprom, largely thanks to popular support. But unruly journalists are not the only ones who run afoul of the law. On Christmas Day, after several unsuccessful attempts, the state was finally able to convict Navy captain and military journalist Grigory Pasko on treason charges. Pasko had leaked information to the press about nuclear-waste dumping in the Russian far east...
...journalist, lured by the promise of an exclusive interview, is taken hostage by a militant group calling itself The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. The group, using the free email account kidnapperguy@hotmail.com, claims the reporter is a CIA agent - no, wait, a Mossad agent - and gives the U.S. 24 hours - no, make that 48 hours - to meet its demands, which range from freeing all Pakistani terror detainees to releasing a halted U.S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government...
...give u 1 more day if America will not meet our demands we will kill Daniel," said the message. "Then this cycle will continue and no American journalist could enter Pakistan." Haunting pictures of the captive in classic B-movie poses - handcuffed with a gun at his head, holding up a newspaper - are attached...
...know what they are doing. Pearl's old boss scoffs at the idea he was working for anybody but his editors - "Of all the reporters who worked in the Washington bureau he had the most jaundiced view of government," Jill Abramson told the New York Times. This is a journalist - a journalist in deep trouble...
TIME.com: The deadline set by the kidnappers of American journalist Daniel Pearl is fast approaching. Are there any signs of progress by the Pakistani authorities in finding the kidnappers...