Has anything you’ve seen reported by Canadian media on Afghanistan in the past couple of years even hinted at the possibility that a single Afghan citizen might enjoy the luxury of television?
The [Afghan Pop Idol] programme has become a sensation in Afghanistan where it is estimated that 11m viewers, or over one-third of the population, regularly tuned in.
Much less 11 million of them?
All that time wasted with Lisa Laflamme, when we could have tuned in to Simon Cowell.
We all know that once the Libranos are back in power, this viewership will be one of their crowning achievements, which can be safely reported, nay, trumpeted by the Librano reportage.
The utterly sad thing about it is the CO2 emissions that are a byproduct of the power needed for those televisions. And then there is the advertising and consumerism that makes broadcasting economically viable.
Speaking of CTV, has anyone seen any reporting on the fact that David Akin has been removed from his duties ‘On the Hill.’
Any suggestions for a new name for his blog?:
http://davidakin.blogware.com/
Can’t say as I have Kate.
But then again that would actually require watching or reading Canadian media.
CTV? Not even the local news.
CBC? They get my viewership once a year for two hours. That would be November 11th.
I’m thnking, I’m thnking.
Maybe Afghan television might have a sitcom called “Little Church in Khandahar”
Isn’t 11,000,000 viewers more than anything watched on the CBC?
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leftwing media bias? in canada?
surely not…
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I think that the Canadian public was in for the treat of a lifetime when they “reported of the ball hockey that took place”. If the “Stanley Cup” was not there I do not think they would have reported it at all.
Maybe they thought if they never reported on it, they would have national revolt on their “MSM” stations. Maybe just maybe “Roy Green can give us an update”. No it will never happen. They Stanley and Grey cups happen to be the Canadian symbols of pride!!!. Maybe the Afghan’s can have their own cups to bring their people together.
Last year Rutherford had on a Corporal that just came back from a tour of duty. He basically asked him of the improvements that the Canadians were doing over there and list that he give astounded me. After the list of questions the Corporal asked one, “WHY WAS NOT THE NEWS REPORTING ANY OF THIS” and Rutherford did not have any answer. Merle Underwood.
No I have not read anywhere, anything from the MSM that indicates that there is anything happening to people in Afstan that does not involve explosions.
I just read a long and really well written letter from Dr. Vernon Chong that kind of puts it in perspective.
Pat
Pat, apparently it wasn’t Chong that wrote that, google Dr Vernon Chong.
Do you know how expensive it is to send a reporter to Afghanistan? I mean the life insurance alone is prohibative.
Lisa LaPhlegm was in Mexico on holiday so it didn’t cost CTV anything for her to stop in at the prison.
If I remember correctly as soon as the US forces had driven the Taliban out of the capital every householder was pounding tin cans into satellite dishes and pulling receivers out of the attic. TV is a big priority there,
http://www.satsig.net/afghanistan/afghan-ict-solution.htm
sell cbc to fox
let’s make some money…………..
My wife’s brother-in-law’s parents just got back from 4 years of missionary work in Afghanistan. And no, they weren’t there to attempt to covert the locals, they were there helping westerners working in Afghanistan. It was a crazy thing to do but not outright suicidal.
They were out one day on their entirely normal routine (normal for them that is,) and they came across a Western team of journalists filming. The point they thought was funny was that they heard the reporter state “we are the only western journalists to report from outside the wire.”
This was in an area in which these two worked, lived and travelled for 4 years. That isn’t to say they saw nothing. Just before their term was up, an American woman was kidnapped from the restaurant they all frequented and beheaded. This was not in the news. They also witnessed several large explosions – a fact that put them in a better position to “report” than all the journalists in the western media.
They also lived and travelled with an armed guard at all times. But still, the media is in a much better position to hire a few armed locals. They’re clearly just not that interested in getting real stories. After all, their stories are all really written at their editor’s headquarters in the west anyway so there isn’t truly a reason to risk their lives. Fact gathering isn’t important to someone who has already written the ending of the story.