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...media, including your favorite Website right here, have some responsibility in this - it is news, after all, and there hasn't been much new out of Afghanistan (still waiting for bin Laden to answer those CNN questions). But remember, unless you're a network anchor, a U.S. senator who gets on television a lot, an author who's written a lot about bioterrorism and been on Oprah, or a postal worker who handles suspicious letters without wearing gloves, the odds are very, very small that you may have even come into contact with those virulent spores...
Alternatively, CNN can join Bush’s war effort and misrepresent the severity of Afghani casualties. It can serve as the mouthpiece of the Bush administration and occasionally sprinkle stories of “smart bombs gone astray” in between stories of U.S. victories. If this becomes the case, then Americans will not have to work hard to find news sources that have the courage to tell both sides of the story. The information revolution works both ways. For years, we predicted that the Internet and satellite technology would empower individuals living under communist and authoritarian regimes...
...believed to have assassinated anti-Taliban opposition leader Ahmed Shah Masood two days before the Sept. 11 terror attacks by sending two kamikazes disguised as journalists to a press conference, with a bomb hidden in their TV camera. And yet here is bin Laden agreeing to be interviewed by CNN, via questions sent through the Qatar-based Al Jezeera network to whom the fugitive terrorist has until now granted exclusive access. Bin Laden's answers will be taped on video - no doubt with all the standard props such as the camouflage flak jacket, the Kalashnikov propped up against the wall...
...WHAT WOULD YOU ASK BIN LADEN? CNN has sent their questions. What would you ask the world's most notorious terrorist if you had the opportunity. Send us your suggestions; we'll excerpt the best in next week's issue of TIME magazine. TIME.com's Tony Karon starts the ball rolling...
...surprisingly, it was al Qaeda that contacted CNN, rather than vice versa. The network was asked to submit questions for bin Laden via an al Qaeda representative who approached Al Jezeera - a savvy media stunt in light of the White House's entreaties to the networks to avoid rebroadcasting the bin Laden infomercials periodically carried on the Qatari network. (The media criticism of those broadcasts, after all, would include the fact that they are taped speeches without any questions from journalists. Now al Qaeda is trying to play the game by taking questions.) CNN has indicated that it feels...