Journalists Why…? Afghanistan Vs Taliban
Days ago I watched the news where I heard this journalist giving a report about Afghanistan. Just before videos of the Afghans were shown, my attention was drawn to the news report because of how the journalist told the story; I was eager to see the videos. In her news broadcast, she reported that the people in Afghanistan were in “abject poverty”, “at the brink of famine", and that “there was almost no hope for them” amongst other harrowing languages that she used in describing the situation. One of the things she said that caught my attention was that Afghans were literally “selling their children just to be able to buy food”. This got me. And at this point, I felt very compassionate for the Afghans, “Oh poor Afghanistan” I said to myself. And above anything else, I wanted to see how desperate the situation was that they were literally selling their children to feed. The next minute, a live video of Afghanistan was shown. The clip showed the snowing city, and women wrappe...