Ever wonder if we get the correct information in the news? Ever wonder if you can trust your news source? If you have done so you, you are one of the very few who do. Most people believe the media reports the correct information. Sadly that is not the case. Two stories that were previously reported in the media have been actually found out to be false in the past few days in Afghanistan.
Everybody remember the UN guest house that was attacked in Kabul Afghanistan? Where 5 UN staff died and 3 men from the close protection Unit held off the Taliban with mere hand guns? Well turns out 4 out of those 5 were killed by friendly fire from the Afghan National Police. One was a confirmed case of an execution by the Afghan police.
Everybody remember the attack on the World Vision HQ in Manshera in Pakistan? Turns out it was not the Taliban at all. The World Vision guys were involved in some underhanded dealings with criminals in the area of Swat. There was an internal investigation where they found out the criminals attacked the World Vision staff because they went back on their deal.
Makes you wonder on how much the media hides information for the sake of political considerations.
Yes I do question everything I read especially in the western news outlets which are more controlled than let’s say Pakistani news media [in a way]..
Also there was a story recently that Taliban had killed girls in a school by introducing gas into the school in Afghanistan :smack: I think the conclusion was that there was a gas pipeline that was leaking..?
Afghanistan: U.N. Report on Attack Cites Friendly Fire
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 26, 2010
A United Nations investigation has found that four of the body’s staff members killed during a suicide attack on a Kabul guesthouse last October may have died because of friendly fire from Afghan security forces, United Nations officials said Monday. A final report by an outside panel suggested that four of the five staff members killed had been mistaken for Taliban insurgents.
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How are they mistaken as Taliban insurgents? Do your colleagues all have beards and wear shalwar above ankles?
You have to do research outside, I can never depend on networks but most of all FOX news. The media in Pakistan is just as bad, displaying all negativity of the west.
I'm really glad you opened this thread. I learned from experience to always read everything in the media with a grain of salt for two reasons.
First, there was an incident in my city about 2 years ago and I was aware of the true facts - when I read the account of the incident in the newspaper - it was totally different. Go figure.
Second, western media has its own agenda relating to events in the Middle East and other conflict zones. I have a relative who went back to Iraq to help with the re-building and is a fairly senior government official. He goes back and forth a couple of times a year and he shares his first-person accounts of what's happening there. He always says that the media exaggerates or spins stories to suit their own agenda.
