{"id":658634,"date":"2021-08-18T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658634"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:22:27","slug":"eager-to-show-off-cnn-msnbc-accused-of-helping-promote-talibans-pr-aims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eager-to-show-off-cnn-msnbc-accused-of-helping-promote-talibans-pr-aims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eager To Show Off\u2019: CNN, MSNBC Accused Of Helping Promote Taliban\u2019s PR Aims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feager-to-show-off-cnn-msnbc-accused-of-helping-promote-talibans-pr-aims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234746091.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Journalists covering foreign powers walk a fine line between reporting the facts and repeating propaganda, especially during wartime. MSNBC and CNN may have crossed that line in their coverage of the precipitous fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. Both networks appeared to carry messages crafted by the Islamist group\u2019s spin doctors for consumption in the West.<\/p>\n<p>CNN essentially acknowledged that it conveyed material the Taliban urgently wanted to broadcast to an international audience on Saturday\u2019s \u201cCNN Newsroom,\u201d which featured Clarissa Ward touring a former U.S. military base now used as a base of operations by the Taliban. Host Michael Holmes <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/cnr\/date\/2021-08-14\/segment\/19\">introduced<\/a> the segment by saying, \u201cThe Taliban [is] making a full use of American military equipment\u201d that \u201cAmerican troops, as they withdrew, simply left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are eager to show off their spoils of war,\u201d he said. \u201cThey granted our Clarissa Ward exclusive access to a former U.S. base, that they now hold.\u201d The fall of valuable and sensitive military equipment of this sort into enemy hands \u201cis raising disturbing questions about what America achieved in 20 years of conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ward said that \u201cthe hollowed-out skeletons of sprawling military bases now under the control of the Taliban\u201d are all that \u201cremains of the U.S. presence in much of Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The footage undeniably has news value, but the Taliban presumably granted CNN access to dispirit Americans and to encourage Islamists that a group of Islamist guerrilla fighters can overcome the world\u2019s leading military superpower. As a Taliban commander told her during the interview, \u201cOne day, <em>Mujahideen<\/em> will have victory and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. <em>Jihad<\/em> will not end until the last day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ward deserves credit for noting that the Taliban promises peace but has waged \u201ca bloody offensive,\u201d as well as pointing out concerns that the regime will deny women\u2019s rights and prevent girls from attending school.<\/p>\n<p>Ward became an object lesson in change brought about by the radical Islamists on Monday, when she traded her reporter\u2019s clothes for a <em>hijab<\/em> in the new, Taliban-controlled city of Kabul.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.7673267326733\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN reporter outside Kabul embassy:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just chanting \u2018Death to America\u2019 but they seem friendly at the same time.\u201d <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xiaj1GjcKJ\">pic.twitter.com\/xiaj1GjcKJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1427283078993547267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MSNBC also appeared to further Taliban propaganda aims on Monday, as host Ayman Mohyeldin interviewed Suhail Shaheen, an official spokesman of the Taliban. Mohyeldin asked if the Taliban was really entering homes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/17\/asia\/afghanistan-women-taliban-intl-hnk-dst\/index.html\">one by one<\/a> to seek out former U.S. collaborators and enemies of the restored regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone go[es] from door to door, and they are posing as Taliban, they are not Taliban,\u201d Shaheen said. \u201cThey may be from the former [regime] \u2026 posing in order to create a bad name for us, to malign us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen insisted that \u201cthere will be no attacks on the Americans\u201d and, when asked if he would \u201cpunish those who worked with the Americans\u201d if they try to leave Afghanistan, he replied, \u201cWe want them not to leave the country, to lead a normal life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohyeldin offered remarkably little pushback to Shaheen\u2019s comments, although widespread accounts seem to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/afghans-tell-of-executions-forced-marriages-in-taliban-held-areas-11628780820\">indicate<\/a> that the Taliban have engaged in executions and forced child marriages in their reconquered territory.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen\u2019s video link cut out about nine minutes into the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Again, an interview with the spokesman of a new regime clearly has news value. But while Mohyeldin did not ask softball questions, he allowed the spokesman to spread disinformation without correction. Mohyeldin was far less aggressive toward the spokesman of a movement that harbored al-Qaeda and sexually enslaved children than he was during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-the-media-use-and-abuse-interviews-to-push-their-narrative\">heated interview<\/a> with the former Israeli ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev.<\/p>\n<p>You can compare the two interviews below:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taliban Spokesperson Claims Reports Of Executions, Forced Marriages &#039;Totally Baseless&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zzPk_gTaLfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Netanyahu advisor pressed on Israeli, Palestinian relations amid deadly clashes in Jerusalem\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d2Pkher2p-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, the left-of-center cable news networks presented matters of real cable value but, at least to some degree, they denied their viewers \u201ccontext.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists covering foreign powers walk a fine line between reporting the facts and repeating propaganda, especially during wartime. 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