February 21, 2002

1:39 PM

CNN SAYS PEARL IS DEAD Judy Woodruff is reporting: "CNN has learned from sources that WSJ reporter Danny Pearl is dead." The network says U.S. officials have seen a videotape that confirms the death.
posted by krewson (9 comments total)

See, if you had not typed in all that description, you would have been first. A lesson for us all.
posted by thirteen at 1:40 PM on February 21, 2002

linking to cnn's front page does nobody any good. here's the actual story.
posted by patricking at 2:10 PM on February 21, 2002

A sad day for pancakes.
posted by dhartung at 2:33 PM on February 21, 2002

Is that a Simpsons reference?
posted by donkeyschlong at 2:42 PM on February 21, 2002

I would submit this is not news. Moral of the story: if you are (1) American journalist (2) working for pro-business publication with (3) Jewish-sounding family name, go to Pakistan at your own risk.
posted by ParisParamus at 2:47 PM on February 21, 2002

I would venture wearing a big puffy gay trainers jacket anywhere in the middle east is inadvisable. Remember the start of Lawrence of Arabia?? These people don't fuck around.
Really is a pity that a member of the press had to go though. I don't think many of us can claim to put that much effort into our work.
posted by Settle at 4:28 PM on February 21, 2002

big puffy gay trainers jacket

did you mean GRAY or something?
posted by Kafkaesque at 5:01 PM on February 21, 2002

Why do people link to generic things like the CNN.com home page?
posted by dgeiser13 at 7:13 PM on February 21, 2002

Because Mefi is no longer about Web sites, but also news.
posted by ParisParamus at 7:24 PM on February 21, 2002