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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman On Reliable Sources Just Said They Had To Take Out 12,000 Journalists
12,000...Really? WTH? And yet the media keeps giving him so much grief.
OK, they are Afghani journalists...but still, it's not just the people who fought with us. They are doing a heroic job and fools like Sasse are calling the effort disgusting. We have now brought out over 110,000 people.
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)I highly doubt they have 12,000 journalists.
Me.
(35,454 posts)but the true story is not being told while they stomp all over the Biden admin.
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)Ponietz
(3,037 posts)Journalism arguably encompasses that group. Facebook didnt even act until recently to hide the friends lists on Afghani accounts. God, I hate that company.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/world/asia/afghanistan-facebook.html
brooklynite
(94,792 posts)The media should give supportive or critical coverage if the facts warrant it; not if their community was helped.
FWIW - CNN just had a story about a major Afghan Journalist (who had interviewed the Taliban leader on national TV) who had to evacuate and was able to get a flight out, but the story pointed out that a lot of stringers and support staff werent able to. Was that unfair to report?
Elessar Zappa
(14,087 posts)has not been based in facts. Many of their so-called experts are people that have an interest in the defense industry. The media take-down of President Biden has been totally unwarranted.
Like the report that Peter Baker has been using a Rayethon board member as his expert. Now that very same CNN has just done a segment on where the media has gone wrong and been unfair in their reporting
agingdem
(7,865 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 29, 2021, 12:58 PM - Edit history (1)
if anyone in their right mind thought this disaster would end any differently lives in a fool's paradise..1200 journalists?...where have they been the last 20 years?...did their masters drop them in-country specifically to "report" on the evacuation?...did anybody read the GET THE HELL OUT memo in May?...
Me.
(35,454 posts)Honestly...as recently as 5 days ago there were some Americans dragging their feet. I consider the job the admin has done to be heroic and that is the tale history will tell. I wonder what the number will be on the 31st. Also, the Taliban supposedly has agreed to let people out after the 31st. Probably because we have all their money.