Military and Afghan Media Formed Partnerships, According to Wikileaks Docs
You think your newsroom is bad, think about one in Afghanistan surrounded by war and destruction. Sounds like tough conditions, but then add on constant pressure from the U.S. government, and it seems like an untenable situation.
Well, apparently the military was using this chaos to push Afghanistan journalists into writing favorable stories about the troops in local papers and radio stations. Buried in the mess of the 92,000 pages of documents published by Wikileaks is evidence that the military funded radio stations and called Afghan journalists “our journalists.”
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