Comments on: Very serious PR problems call for all hands on deck http://editorseye.com/WordPress/2009/08/24/very-serious-pr-problems-call-for-all-hands-on-deck/ i run my own damn think tank Tue, 22 May 2012 23:57:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: MarcLord http://editorseye.com/WordPress/2009/08/24/very-serious-pr-problems-call-for-all-hands-on-deck/comment-page-1/#comment-3903 MarcLord Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:19:02 +0000 http://editorseye.com/WordPress/?p=1315#comment-3903 Nice digging, Greg Bacon.<br /><br />There's a dramatically compelling movie out there, set in England and called 'Dirty Pretty Things.' Of course the Turks play the bad organ harvesters. In the movie, they trade green cards for kidneys. Nice digging, Greg Bacon.

There's a dramatically compelling movie out there, set in England and called 'Dirty Pretty Things.' Of course the Turks play the bad organ harvesters. In the movie, they trade green cards for kidneys.

]]> By: A. Peasant http://editorseye.com/WordPress/2009/08/24/very-serious-pr-problems-call-for-all-hands-on-deck/comment-page-1/#comment-3902 A. Peasant Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:26:43 +0000 http://editorseye.com/WordPress/?p=1315#comment-3902 head hunters...<br /><br />organ hunters...<br /><br />must be a career path. head hunters…

organ hunters…

must be a career path.

]]> By: Greg Bacon http://editorseye.com/WordPress/2009/08/24/very-serious-pr-problems-call-for-all-hands-on-deck/comment-page-1/#comment-3901 Greg Bacon Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:18:23 +0000 http://editorseye.com/WordPress/?p=1315#comment-3901 And yet another organ harvesting article, from National Public Radio:<br /><br /><i>And we begin with Lindy Washburn, senior writer for health care at The Record, which covers north Jersey. She joins us from member station WBGO in Newark, and thanks very much for being with us today.....<br /><br />CONAN: So this was a sting operation.<br /><br />Ms. WASHBURN: It was a sting operation, and her story was that she had an uncle who was very sick with polycystic disease, had been on dialysis for several years and needed to get a transplant. So Dwek called Rosenbaum, and Rosenbaum invited them to his home in Brooklyn, where they went in February of 2008. They go out there, and they ask him about how he gets these kidneys and what his experience is…<br /><br />CONAN: And we know this because these conversations are tape recorded.<br /><br />Ms. WASHBURN: Exactly, yes. The complaint quotes from him based on the tape recordings that the undercover agent had made. <b>So he tells them that he would be able to take a blood sample from her uncle and transport it to Israel, and there are hunters there who will find a donor.</b> The cost for this would be $150,000. He says he needs to schmear a lot of people, pay them for their services.</i><br /><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111379908<br /><br />Hunters who will find a donor? Is that just a play on words or was she speaking the truth?<br /><br />IDF Hunters? And yet another organ harvesting article, from National Public Radio:

And we begin with Lindy Washburn, senior writer for health care at The Record, which covers north Jersey. She joins us from member station WBGO in Newark, and thanks very much for being with us today…..

CONAN: So this was a sting operation.

Ms. WASHBURN: It was a sting operation, and her story was that she had an uncle who was very sick with polycystic disease, had been on dialysis for several years and needed to get a transplant. So Dwek called Rosenbaum, and Rosenbaum invited them to his home in Brooklyn, where they went in February of 2008. They go out there, and they ask him about how he gets these kidneys and what his experience is…

CONAN: And we know this because these conversations are tape recorded.

Ms. WASHBURN: Exactly, yes. The complaint quotes from him based on the tape recordings that the undercover agent had made. So he tells them that he would be able to take a blood sample from her uncle and transport it to Israel, and there are hunters there who will find a donor. The cost for this would be $150,000. He says he needs to schmear a lot of people, pay them for their services.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111379908

Hunters who will find a donor? Is that just a play on words or was she speaking the truth?

IDF Hunters?

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