Who said he was going to try and repay it? Thats an awful big assumption being made for a piece of trash from the NY Slimes.

But his very career is a service to all of mankind! Bringing the light of the NY Times wisdom and progressive thinking to the dark corners of the world...
Isn't that payment enough?!?

Maybe he should be impressed into one of Her Majesty's services until such time the debt is deemed paid off. Since it is a Debt of Honor, whether it has been paid or not, should be up to the family and/or unit of the British Soldier. If not that, then at least blood money for should be paid by the reporter to the families of the Soldier and Interpeter.

even worse, he was (my guess) looking to write a story on the attack on the tankers that would have reflected badly on the military that came to rescue him.

When someone proposes a law regarding journalistic negligence, we will be opening up a brand new place for all the lawyers to congregate.

Like so many good ideas, which are common sense and rational, the law would muck it up no end.

Journalism in a war zone is risky business. There's a difference between being kidnapped off the street of a busy city, quite another to decide to 'free lance' and just wander off on your own. Might make for a great story IF you make it back to the local MSM watering hole. In those cases it should be understood that you're on your own and don't expect the cavalry to come in any time soon.

So true, GarandFan, but you know as well as I that our military are the best in the world.

They will even risk their own lives to save idiots and fools and in the case of some media persons, enemies.

God Bless our troops.

Here's a different dollars and sense for you: (via Tom McGuire)

Medicare will pay for Kidney transplant, but not he anti-rejection drugs. Since ALL dialysis patients (hence virtually all kidney transplant patients) end up on Medicare that means the Government pretty much controls the whole process.

Dialysis costs $71,00 per year
Kidney transplant costs $106,000
Anti-Rejection drugs cost $17,000 per year

So the transplant pays for itself in under 2 years, but the government stops the drugs after 3.

In what universe does this make sense?

How are we to suppose that Government run health care will save money when it is run by imbeciles such as these?

Keeping 2.7 recipients on drugs for 1 year pays for the added expense of giving 1 more person a transplant. Saving accrue the longer you keep someone on the drugs and not let them reject the transplant.

I am so sick of listening to these jackasses tell us how much better things are going to be when the government runs health care.

jim m:

I'm sure Barry will get right on that. Oh, wait, he was in the Senate at one time wasn't he? Guess he was just too busy at the time. What with fighting waste and fraud at ACORN. Oh, he didn't, did he? Maybe it was waste and fraud at Medicare? Well, give Barry time, I'm sure he'll get around to that. Maybe get Michelle a part time 'outside expert' consulting job at say $500K a year.

In the Illinois Senate he spent most of his time making sure that live babies could be murdered in hospitals.

Jay, your article is gonna make me think twice about accepting a rescue. They wouldn't be able to bill you for a rescue if you refuse it, would they? Seriously though, I remember hearing that Scott Mason regained his sense of direction and was close to rescuing himself when he was found.

Sadly, he probably feels he doesn't owe anything to anyone because he was only doing his duty to the world. You know, somehow twisting this story to prove how wrong the American Military is for even being there. There was nothing altruistic in his quest for this story, and we all know that whatever he was planning on printing would have portrayed America as the villains. You know, remind the American people of the horrors of war. There is no such thing as journalistic integrity anymore. its all about printing the most outrageous story which will infuriate the most people. And the people killed during his rescuse? Well, if we weren't at war, then their deaths would ahve never occurred, so again, its America's fault. Because we're just plain bad

Journalists that risk their lives covering wars or just working in "dangerous" countries, perform a service no less noble than American soldiers.

Tina, my first reaction to your comment was to almost get violently ill.

My second reaction, however, was a bit more temperate:

would you include these journalists in your fulsome praise?

http://www.zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/

J.

Tina, you think journalists are as noble as American soldiers? Then you should start watching Fox News so you could get smarter and better informed.

He could retire...

Hey Jay Tea,

We can both agree that war correspondents that falsify or print misleading photos are scumbags. Those that do should not be called journalists. I'd like to expand on this but have to work late tonight.

Do you read comments after more than a day or so? There is probably more that we agree with than disagree on this topic. A better explanation will follow.