Fight Terrorism & Get Yourself Paid
What did NWA flight 253 passenger Jasper Schuringa do after thwarting a terrorist’s underwear bomb attack on Christmas Day?
Why, he hired an agent to get him paid to do interviews, of course.
Except mainstream American news agencies don’t pay of interviews. That would be wrong. They do “license” incredibly blurry cellphone photos for upwards of $10,000 and then get the interview thrown in for free.
As you can see from the above image, Schuringa’s photos have zero news value but don’t ask the folks at CNN to admit that, because they still tell themselves that real news organizations never pay for an interview.
At least TMZ and the National Enquirer are up-front about their checkbook journalism.
Gawker has all the gory details on the photo/interview negotiations and the New York Times now says that Schuringa, stung by the negative coverage, has decided to stop doing interviews.
Under the Radar is commentary. We don’t report the news; we offer our take on what happened.
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Hey, I would much rather have a good citizen who was not afraid to commit self defense as a rolemodel speaking out than some politician or thug athlete. Give the man his 15 minutes of fame, not for saving himslf but for saving everyone else on the plane. Either he has something valid to say, in which case he deserves to be paid, or he will fade away with the event.
Schuringa’s photos are unique, and he deserves to be paid. I’m surprised we did not see more photos like this.