Afghanistan's top unreported stories

http://www.aan-afghanistan.org/index.asp?id=524

“Afghanistan was the forgotten war no more in 2009 with the mass media descending often fresh from Baghdad. However unversed in the complex history of the conflict and international engagement and based in Kabul often with little more than embeds out, remarkably little new light has been thrown on events for a global audience. It’s noticeable that the really interesting stories tend to come from the old hands and/or freelancers. Indeed what has tended to emerge is an oddly sanitized version of reality driven by the concerns of Western newsdesks (and even military press officers) rather than the streets of Kandahar…”

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