This article from the Star Tribune which runs on it's own from Star Tribune Media Company. However, Start Tribune recently just broke off on their own from the New York based company, Avista Capital Partners.
The author of the article is Some of the quotes that were stated in the article were from U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. Other quotes came from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, U.S. Military officials, and U.S. NATO officials.
The article in the Pioneer Press is owned by MediaNews Group. The company is based out of Colorado which owns several newspaper and media companies.
There are only a few people that the author quotes former Afghan President Burhannudin Rabbani and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
The author of the article was Robert Granier and is typically self supported. There are however loans and grants that have gone out.
The author doesn't quote anybody or cites anyone. However, the author is credible in and of himself being a CIA's Chief of station a while back.
The articles that I have chose almost work in progression, in order of the way that I have posted them. The Startribune talks about how the Taliban is losing momentum and their military forces are decreasing. After that the Pioneer press reports that the attacks on the Taliban are causing a push to get the Taliban to start talking peace with Afghanistan. Then the article in Aljazeera weighs the options in talking about peace with the Taliban. It seems to me that a common theme among these articles is that they are all agreeing that the Taliban seems to be rather meager. However, the article in Alajazeera addresses something that the others didn't and that was how Afghanistan and the U.S. need to approach the Taliban in these meetings. If it is done wrong it could mean that there could be more Taliban problems. I think that the way that these articles were written it seemed obvious which one had more insight to the matter because of the depth of the information that was given in the Aljazeera article.
The similarities are that all three have are that they are talking about the same topic but all three are in different methods. My first two articles are much more about getting the situation out there rather than my last article which is more about solving the issues in the country. I have also noticed that Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press were much more focused on the violence that occurred in Afghanistan whereas Aljazeera portrayed the situation more peacefully. I think the reason why newspapers have such differing views is simply because they have a bias. They may not show or publish the story that they don't support. Also the news has a tendency to take words out of context. Personally I would believe that the closer(geographically) the source is the more reliable it is.
No comments:
Post a Comment