Media Opinion on DC Shooter Avoided Reality That Violence Abroad Can Come Home
Six of eight opinion pieces on the DC National Guard shooting ignored extensive evidence that the suspect’s US military experience impacted his mental state.
Biden’s Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs and Stenography
The story of Biden’s reallocation of Afghanistan’s central banking reserves wasn’t mentioned by a single TV news outlet.
NPR Devotes Almost Two Hours to Afghanistan Over Two Weeks—and 30 Seconds to US Starving Afghans
NPR failed to call attention to the US policy of starving Afghanistan by restricting its trade activity and seizing its banking reserves.
Action Alert: Tell USA Today to Tell Whole Story on Afghan Withdrawal
Please tell USA Today to tell the whole story on the state of Afghanistan in the wake of the US withdrawal.
NPR Distorts History of US Invasion of Afghanistan
The reality is a far cry from NPR’s propagandistically simple formulation that the Taliban simply refused to hand over Osama bin Laden.
Biden’s Multi-Billion Afghan Theft Gets Scant Mention on TV News
Two months ago (FAIR.org, 12/21/21), I noted the striking contrast between vocal media outrage—ostensibly grounded in concern for Afghan people—over President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, and the relative silence over the growing humanitarian crisis in that country, which threatens millions with life-threatening levels of famine. While influenced by drought and […]
Media Forget Afghan Plight as US Sanctions Drive Mass Famine Risk
As Afghan citizens have been plunged into a humanitarian crisis due in no small part to US sanctions, where is the outrage?
Afghanistan Withdrawal: Sundays With the Military Industrial Complex
As US troops exited Afghanistan , the Sunday shows were filled with guests who had direct ties to the military/industrial complex.
Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal
Corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices.
September 11’s Never-Ending Story
A retrospective look at FAIR’s coverage of two decades of media self-censorship, scapegoating and stenography.
‘Accountability to the People of Afghanistan Should Remain Our Focal Point’
“We need to begin the process of acknowledging US responsibility for the impact of the war, the devastation that the war brought to the people of Afghanistan.”
‘So Much of This War Has Got Almost Nothing to Do With the Afghans Themselves’
“You’ve seen terror groups increase by a factor of five. How can anyone say that this has been successful?”
Media Rediscover Afghan Women Only When US Leaves
Media “discovered” Afghan women as the US angled for invasion; their interest returned with a vengeance as US troops exited the country.
Phyllis Bennis and Matthew Hoh on Afghanistan Withdrawal
US media consumers may need not a broom but a shovel to deal with the self-aggrandizing, history-erasing misinformation headed our way.
As Kabul Is Retaken, Papers Look Back in Erasure
Editorial boards trivialized South Asian lives, erased US responsibility and made untenable assertions about Washington’s motives.
Corporate Media Oppose Afghan Control of Afghanistan
Establishment reporting over the future of Afghanistan after Biden’s announcement demonstrated the imperialist mindset of corporate journalists, who presented Afghans controlling their own country as an unacceptable outcome.
Support the Tropes
Corporate media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, US actions abroad.
‘If Our Goal Is to Stop Killing Afghans, We’re Going About It All Wrong’
“There really isn’t any basis to say that continuing this war has any connection to protecting people in this country, to keeping Americans safe. There is no military solution to terrorism.”
Ending the Forever Wars: Phyllis Bennis on Afghanistan, Hyun Lee on Korea
Puzzling out what’s behind the “more war will lead to peace” argument in Afghanistan–and listening to people in North and South Korea who seek an end to the militarized tension they’ve lived under for more than 70 years.
Media Cry Wolf for Third Time on Afghan ‘Bounties’
Intelligence officials have pulled this same stunt twice in the last six months, first crying wolf over Russia, then Iran, accusing them of doing exactly the same thing: paying off the Taliban to kill Americans.
