A while back, you may remember I blogged that I felt the American show of support for Jill Carroll's release wasn't as widespread as it had been in France for Florence Aubenas. Apparently the French thought so, too. In reporting the release this week of Ms. Carroll (which, by the way, hooray!), RFI commented that although the Americans hadn't been as demonstrative in their support of the hostage as Europeans usually are, the Christian Science Monitor (the paper she was working for) had done a good job of keeping her in the news over the time she was held hostage.
John Stewart commented last night that this demonstrated the news coming from Iraq isn't all bad - sometimes people are only nearly killed while there.