Wikileaks Documents Show U.S. Hand in Afghanistan Media
Wikileaks’ Sunday data dump of 90,000-plus U.S. military documents concerning the war effort in Afghanistan has yielded evidence that the U.S. is running a payola scam of sorts with local media in the war-torn country.
John Cook of Yahoo News writes: “Several reports from Army psychological operations units and provincial reconstruction teams … show that local Afghan radio stations were under contract to air content produced by the United States. Other reports show U.S. military personnel apparently referring to Afghan reporters as “our journalists” and directing them in how to do their jobs.”
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