Google check wins reporter his freedom

Áine on October 22nd, 2004 filed in Politics

Mike Corder | Sydney | October 20

“Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him Googled his name on the Internet to investigate his work before deciding to release him unharmed, the journalist’s executive producer said yesterday.” […] “Martinkus’ executive producer at Australia’s SBS network, Mike Carey, said the Internet, often used by Iraqi militants to air grisly images of hostages being beheaded, likely saved Martinkus. “They checked on him to see if he was who he said he was,” Carey said.” — [Toronto Star via The Agonist]

The internet saves a life… again. (It saved mine once.)

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