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Rhiannon12866

(204,779 posts)
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 03:51 AM Aug 2021

Afghan Women Journalists Stalwart In Face Of Taliban Takeover - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC



Lotfullah Najafizada, head of Tolo News in Afghanistan, talks with Rachel Maddow about the strength and courage of Afghan women journalists and how Western media and supporters of press freedoms can support Afghan journalism during this precarious transition to Taliban rule. Aired on 08/17/2021.


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Afghan Women Journalists Stalwart In Face Of Taliban Takeover - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 2021 OP
Looks like the women of Afghanistan multigraincracker Aug 2021 #1
Good point, they really seem incredible Rhiannon12866 Aug 2021 #2
👆THIS👆 InAbLuEsTaTe Aug 2021 #3

multigraincracker

(32,641 posts)
1. Looks like the women of Afghanistan
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:33 AM
Aug 2021

have more courage than the men of Afghanistan. Perhaps we should have spent those trillion of training Afghan women, not the men.

Rhiannon12866

(204,779 posts)
2. Good point, they really seem incredible
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 05:48 AM
Aug 2021

Not to mention - the American reporters, too. The reports I saw last night all seemed to come from female reporters, and you'd think that's the last place they'd want to be right now.

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