Glad You're Okay, Tyler
I've been so focused on other news that I didn't realize four New York Times journalists had been captured in Libya in the first place, no less that they'd been released:
The newspaper identified the journalists as Anthony Shadid, its bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, and a two-time Pulitzer winner for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban and rescued by British commandos in 2009; Tyler Hicks, a staffer who is based in Istanbul and has served as an embedded journalist in Afghanistan; and photographer Lynsey Addario, who has covered the Middle East and Africa.
Had I known, I would have been alarmed, so I'm glad I didn't know.
I met Tyler here once under odd circumstances. I was trying to explain to the staff of a local gym how to sell gym memberships to foreign customers. I'd been asked by the management to help with this: They wanted me to explain to their staff that foreigners had weird obsessions with things like "punctuality."
Tyler walked in the door, looking foreign, so we used him as a practice case. I made him role-play being a "potential foreign customer" over and over. He was very sporting about it.
I have a feeling Gaddafi's forces were not quite so eager to provide him with perfect customer satisfaction.
Glad he's okay.
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