Embedded Edits: Is news coverage of Afghanistan straight from the source?

by Dru Oja Jay
July 03, 2006
The Dominion

Many stories and facts are left out of the media completely, making media criticism a straightforward affair. To establish that a publisher’s or broadcaster’s other priorities are affecting its ability to tell the truth, the critic simply has to point to stories that were ignored altogether and account for why truthful, accurate reporting would not have ignored them.

In some cases, evidence points to outright supression of certain facts that are undisputed and part of the public record. The use of taxpayers’ money to fund organizations responsible for murder and human rights abuses in Haiti, for example, or the violent imposition of the band council system on Indigenous nations.

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