"Hot News- CNN is not your friend"
A post at Bouhammer's Afghanistan Blog (an American milblog):
Here is some hot news from the ground in Afghanistan….Apparently CNN now has setup a bureau in Kabul. This is probably the first time since 2002 I am sure.Sound vaguely familiar? Not that any Canadian network even has anyone stationed at Kabul.
Anyway, the word on the (dirt) street is that CNN does not care to cover any Humanitarian Assistance stories. All they want is direct action (kinetic) operation stories.
So I guess now that there is no more real bad news in Iraq, they have decided to go back to Afghanistan and only want to focus on the bad, bloody things there too. Who cares about girls being able to go to school, or children being fed, or farmers being able to grow something besides poppies and provide for their family? Not when there is blood and gore to be splashed across America’s 42″ flat screen plasma TVs every night.
This is why I refuse and always will refuse to watch that the Crappy News Network.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 9:22 a.m.
2 Comments:
wonder if they will cover this "pre-kinetics" story ??
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Not a dog's chance, Fred. ... sorry, terrible pun. :-)
Seriously though, this quote "Anyway, the word on the (dirt) street is that CNN does not care to cover any Humanitarian Assistance stories. All they want is direct action (kinetic) operation stories" does tell us in advance how CNN is going to frame all the Af-stan news in the year ahead.
CNN = Censor Non-compliant News. Non-compliant with the pre-existing CNN agenda, that is. CNN, CBC, MSNBC, BBC-all birds of a feather.
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