{"id":324959,"date":"2021-09-24T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9024037"},"modified":"2021-09-24T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:06:11","slug":"missing-voices-in-broadcast-coverage-of-afghan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/24\/missing-voices-in-broadcast-coverage-of-afghan-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the US after 20 years finally began its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the story dominated TV news. Just as they did when the war began (Extra!<\/b>, 11\u201312\/01<\/a>), corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices and vanishingly few perspectives from civil society leaders in either Afghanistan or the United States.<\/p>\n FAIR studied a week of Afghanistan coverage (8\/15\u201321\/21), starting with the day the Taliban took back Kabul. We looked at the three primetime broadcast news shows, ABC World News Tonight<\/b>, CBS Evening News<\/b> and NBC Nightly News<\/b>, identifying 74 sources across the three shows.<\/p>\nWho got to speak?<\/b><\/h3>\n