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10/15/2001 "One other item about these food and medicine drops. They're not popular with everyone. The international relief organization Doctors without Borders, which won the Nobel Peace Prize for relief work, described it today as military propaganda designed to justify the bombing. The Bush Administration points out it also has committed $300 million in other aid. It's a question, ultimately, of getting it there." On Tuesday night, he followed up: "Are the U.S. food drops on Afghanistan making matters worse? Some relief agencies say yes." Oh, PLEASE!!! Cut to Dan Harris in Islamabad, who outlined how things are being made worse: "They call it a 'bombs and bread' mission. While attacking the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, U.S. officials have reminded the public as often as possible that they're also attacking hunger: 37,000 individual food rations dropped every night. Today some humanitarian aid workers were saying this effort is little more than propaganda." Excuse me while I wipe away a tear! These do-gooders have nothing better to do than complain to the media? Let them! Let's also consider that many Americans don't feel good about American servicemen risking their lives to drop food into a country whose leaders sponsored a horrendous terrorist attack on American soil. Let's consider that we could just drop bombs and be done with it. Let's consider a few facts about dispensing food aid within Afghanistan:
If you were an Afghan truck driver, would you drive your truck to a place where you were likely to be beaten and robbed of your vehicle? And now the French and English aid organizations want to blame the U.S. for disrupting the flow of food? All well and good - but I am offended that ABC World News Tonight feels free to serve us up this slop without noting the obvious. War has always caused humanitarian catastrophe. As our president has stated, we didn't start this war, but we will finish it. Any Afghans who don't like the food we drop them are not hungry enough. And without question, our military action will, in the end, result in a more appropriate distribution of nutritional and medical aid for the suffering people of Afghanistan. Shame on Peter Jennings! Shame on ABC's World News Tonight! Let's tell them what we think. Here is the contact information: ABC Phone: 212-456-7777 World News Tonight with Peter Jennings Owner of ABC: Phone: 919-560-1000 Read more here:
Oxfam International When you feel your personal media bias tolerance gauge rising into the red zone, don't throw stuff at the TV screen! Send your suggestion to outrage@fairpress.org! Each week, one hideous example of media bias will be selected for closer examination. Hmmmmmm . . .
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