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[...] UPDATE: As Rob notes, ABC interviewed the terrorist behind this horrific act, without turning the beast in… [...]

But Rob, then it wouldn’t be an exclusive interview.

This is sick… I’m going to post about it right now.

[...] This is what happens when, instead of using your knowledge about on-the-lam terror criminals to help authorities bring them to justice, you use it to get an exclusive interview to boost your ratings. Proving once again that the media elites almost always put ratings above patriotism or even human compassion. [...]

[...] Insurgent sources? To non-media types like you and me “insurgents” are “terrorists.” Especially those who would be in-the-know on suicide attacks. Which means that these people are, unequivocally, the enemy. This reminds me of the time ABC News interviewed the master-mind behind the Beslan school massacre. The journalist could have easily tipped the Russian government as to the location of that monster, but they didn’t. Instead they interviewed him for a story, which tells us volumes about where their priorities lay. [...]

[...] Earlier this year ABC News set up an interview with the mastermind behind the Beslan atrocity, who is still on the lam from authorities. Rather than use their knowledge of the monster’s whereabouts to bring him to justice, the news network used their knowlege to get an interview with him for ratings. [...]

[...] explicit languageHeads must roll at ABC. I read this from the good folks at Say Anything. I share the same rage that Rob has. Read this… it’s UNBELIEVEABLE!! As Americans blast Al Jazeera for broadcasting Osama Bin Laden or Al Zarqawi tapes and videos, including beheadings, one of the big three networks from America goes to the backwoods of Chechnya and interviews directly, Shamil Basayev, leader of the Chechen terrorists.Just to refresh you,… This is the same man who is behind the Beslan School Massacre that killed over 200 Russian Beslan children on their first day of classes. This is the same man who made a practice attack video before is men and suicide bomber women attacked the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow and killed 130 Russians in a three day siege.This is borderline treasonous. Here is what Rob at Say Anything has to say about. I agree with him 100%.Memo to the media: We know you value ratings above everything else, including patriotism and compassion for other human beings, but this is over the line. Shamil Basayev does not have a “story to tell.” He planned and executed an attack on a school full of children. He is a coward and a monster and if you have information as to his whereabouts you should notify the authorities instead of sending a God-damned reporter out to interview him.One can only hope that the reporters and producers responsible for this travesty are currently seated under some hot lights and being asked hard questions about what they know about this terrorist. If ABC sent these reporters out without having informed the military as to the whereabouts of this SOB, those involved at ABC should be tried for treason. They interviewed the enemy. They interviewed a man that killed innocent children while they were in school. This bastard should rot in hell, not be given an interview on ABC. [...]