Afstan: Differing takes on essentially the same story
1) The Gray Lady takes a black view: a relentlessly negative (about Canadians too) story by Carlotta Gall in the NY Times.
2) The Globe and Mail's Graeme Smith presents a different perspective:
At the same time we find headlines with differing takes on Canadian support for the war:
1) Toronto Star:
Update: The headline I assigned to the Vancouver Sun was actually from the Canada.com site, not the paper. The different headlines for the same story in the CanWest papers are here--and would make significantly different impressions on a reader.
The road that cuts through the heart of Panjwai district here tells all that is going wrong with NATO’s war in Afghanistan...Ms Gall has a track record in this line of reporting, and has made at least one serious mistake.
2) The Globe and Mail's Graeme Smith presents a different perspective:
Noise of war gives way to the sound of rebuildingWhich is not to say that everything is rosy.
With Canada and NATO's help, a battlefield's residents return in droves
At the same time we find headlines with differing takes on Canadian support for the war:
1) Toronto Star:
Defence minister taps new PR chief to help sell unpopular Afghan mission2) Vancouver Sun:
Support for Afghan mission increasesWhat's a poor media consumer to believe?
58% of Canadians in favour of effort: poll
Update: The headline I assigned to the Vancouver Sun was actually from the Canada.com site, not the paper. The different headlines for the same story in the CanWest papers are here--and would make significantly different impressions on a reader.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 2:43 p.m.
4 Comments:
You can bet with all of the biased MSM stories against the war that if we got the truth 80% of Canadians would be in favour. It is actually amazing that given all the negativity from the chattering classes that 60% are in favour. It says a lot about Canadians ability to think.
Proving the unspoken rule that you don't bring a bunch of raggedy-ass peasants to a gunfight...
"-- BAGRAM: -- A top Afghan insurgent leader operating from inside Pakistan sent some 200 ill-equipped fighters, some wearing plastic bags on their feet, into Afghanistan where most were killed in a major battle this week, a top US general said on Saturday."
It seems to me that there was a time when the major media sources attemted to report the news impartially. That would mean that there would be no mention of polls, popular opinion, insinuations, and so on. They would report what was happening and stop there. Maybe I'm naive, maybe this was never true. Now you have to filter out the news from the opinions. And the opinions are sometimes completely wrong.
I find it very disturbing that there is still a dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan on their border.
What was Chretien thinking sending our troops into an area where the borders haven't even been agreed upon.
Make no wonder there are insurgents staging in pakistan to invade Afstan they are probably being encouraged if not dismissed so as to procur the disputed territory.
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