'Murdered' Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko turns up alive
A Russian journalist and critic of the Kremlin, reported to have been shot dead in Ukraine, showed up alive at a press conference on Wednesday to declare that his murder was faked by Ukrainian security services in an effort to foil an assassination plot against him.
In a stunning development, Arkady Babchenko, 41, walked into a room of journalists in Kiev who had been expecting to get an update on his murder.
He apologized to his wife Olechka -- who on Tuesday was reported to have found him bleeding to death at his apartment -- for the "hell" she had gone through. Ukrainian officials offered a jaw-dropping explanation for his so-called death -- to expose a Russian plot against him.
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Also at BBC.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @04:53PM
I fail to see why you are drawing outrage at how the incident is being covered in a different way once the story changed. The difference is what happened, and why. Case in point, compare:
1) Man shoots woman dead in Grand Central Station: this is bad, and is newsworthy.
2) Man has a conceal-carry permit and carries a pistol through Grand Central Station, passing a woman without incident: this is just ordinary behavior, and not newsworthy.
There is a bit of a story about the exceptional nature of saving this journalist's life (hence this article), but it is vastly different in scope than an assassination.