{"id":1042,"date":"2006-06-21T23:13:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2006-06-21T23:13:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T23:13:44","slug":"2006-6-21-afghan-security-orders-journalists-to-report-more-good-news-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Afghan security orders journalists to report “more good news”"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is just pathetic\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
The best Karzai’s government could come up with–in response to Taliban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mounting attacks <\/a>on NATO, local government troops as well as civilians, since spring of this year–is sending Afghani intelligence agents to intimidate Kabul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s press corps into reporting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more good news.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Here are excerpts of Newsday report by James Rupert:
Afghanistan<\/strong> orders journalists to report more good news<\/strong>
KABUL, Afghanistan \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The war against the Taliban has gone badly these last months, but Afghanistan’s national intelligence agency has devised a secret plan to reverse the tide of bad news.
In a coordinated action this week, the intelligence men drove up to TV stations and newspapers in SUVs and dropped off an unsigned letter ordering journalists to report more favorable news about the government. In particular, the letter said, they should avoid “materials which deteriorate people’s morale and cause disappointment to them.”
The men from the National Security Directorate would not give their names, and to better ensure secrecy, the letter instructed journalists that “publishing or copying this document is unauthorized.”
Immediately, of course, it was Afghanistan’s top story: The government was imposing censorship, and press groups were protesting in outrage. By Monday night, the fire reached China, where President Hamid Karzai is traveling. (Full story)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is just pathetic\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nThe best Karzai’s government could come up with–in response to Taliban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mounting attacks <\/a>on NATO, local government troops as well as civilians, since spring of this year–is sending Afghani intelligence agents to intimidate Kabul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s press corps into reporting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more good news.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Here are excerpts of Newsday report by James Rupert:
\nAfghanistan<\/strong> orders journalists to report more good news<\/strong>
\nKABUL, Afghanistan \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The war against the Taliban has gone badly these last months, but Afghanistan’s national intelligence agency has devised a secret plan to reverse the tide of bad news.
\nIn a coordinated action this week, the intelligence men drove up to TV stations and newspapers in SUVs and dropped off an unsigned letter ordering journalists to report more favorable news about the government. In particular, the letter said, they should avoid “materials which deteriorate people’s morale and cause disappointment to them.”
\nThe men from the National Security Directorate would not give their names, and to better ensure secrecy, the letter instructed journalists that “publishing or copying this document is unauthorized.”
\nImmediately, of course, it was Afghanistan’s top story: The government was imposing censorship, and press groups were protesting in outrage. By Monday night, the fire reached China, where President Hamid Karzai is traveling. (Full story)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[60,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}