Monday, November 20, 2006

Assassination and media frenzy


Stories of secret murders are usually found in the movies or in good history books. Rarely does a story of modern politics involve murder. Today happens to be one of those rare days when a political critic has had a near death experience and the media jumps to the conclusion of political assassination.

Of course, it is a political assassination that the Russians are being critised of so I'm not sure that the media has come all that far in the last fifty years. I mean, when was the last time the USA was involved in a political assassination? If the media is to be believed than..well...never. (history books might tell something different, but the media is smarter than historians)

But I'm starting to ramble....

The attempted assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, a former colonel in the Russian secret service and a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was carried out when Mr. Litvinenko met with a journalist at a restaurant to discuss the murder of another Putin critic earlier this year. A poison was slipped into his food or drink and he was admitted into hospital the next day.

It is still being investigated but the media is wondering what kind of journalist, after her interviewee has been hiding for six years would be so stupid as to poison him!

*pictured Alexander Litvinenko

2 comments:

mist1 said...

Remind me not to order what he had.

kris said...

don't order what he had:P