{"id":32462,"date":"2012-10-18T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32462"},"modified":"2012-10-18T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:57:39","slug":"taliban-complains-about-media-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32462","title":{"rendered":"Taliban complains about media bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, shooting a 14-year-old girl in the face isn’t the big publicity coup that the Taliban was hoping for, according to the Atlantic Wire<\/a>. They think the media is focusing too much on the “shooting her in the face” part and not enough on the fact that she was anti-Islamic;<\/p>\n

Yesterday, local paper The News International gave voice to the Taliban’s pathetic complaints of bias, which offered a rare window into terrorist media criticism. TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said his group would “continue to respect journalists” except for highly biased outlets. The spokesman for another Taliban insurgent group, Sirajuddin Ahmad of Maulana Fazlullah, spoke at greater length:<\/p>\n

He said media provided an opportunity to all those people who were opposed to the Taliban and their activities and used insulting language against them on media. \u201cRight from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to Hillary Clinton and President Obama, all of them used whatever bad language and words they could use on the media but when we tried to reply to them, no media organisation was willing to give us importance. The media is not even allowed to use the real name for Maulana Fazlullah but calling him derogatory names like Mulla Radio,\u201d Sirajuddin complained, but refused to admit that they planned attacks on the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I thought it was The Duffel Blog at first, too.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, their victim has been moved to a UK hospital and seems to be improving, according to the International Business Times<\/a>. Angelina Jolie writes in The Daily Beast<\/a> that “We all are Malala”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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