Listening Post - The shootout, the US agent and the media

In late January, Raymond Davis, an American working in Pakistan, allegedly shot and killed two men who he claimed were trying to rob him. Soon after the shooting it emerged in the Pakistani media that Davis was a CIA operative, but that information did not surface in the US media until weeks later. That is because - at the behest of the US government - many media outlets there withheld that information. It was not until the UK's Guardian newspaper reported that Davis worked for the CIA that the US media began acknowledging it. This week Listening Post not only looks at the coverage of this story but the journalistic ethics involved because what for one nation's media is a matter of national security, is a breaking news story in another.

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[ZILLADROID]

This is why I have much respect for Al Jazeera and it's programs.

[luftwaffe789456123]

The US are just provoking War so they will have reasons to get in into action again and Steal Resources behind the Fog of War............US Politics is the most Craziest and Meanest and Baddest of all,they are just good at Screening their work so they will look innocent.

[TheFenian16]

@khakies2000 really guy? we drink blood? we eat human meat? fuck your dirty whore mother in the ass you cunt. your religion is trying to take over the world. your terrorist groups that are founded trained and funded by your secret services have murdered more of YOUR people than we ever will. fuck you have a nice day.

[khakies2000]

These fucken American bastereds r more worse than a PIG.They drink Blood,They eat Human meat,They do Bloody things all around the world,& British Doggies follow them like fools.no one can ever trust any of their cheap media.

[joshdaugherty1111]

Another reason people need to wake up in america and finally realize the media is all fairy tales, lies, and propaganda. GET MAD PEOPLE, THE GOVERNMENT IS AND HAS BEEN "NO LONGER FIT" ...

[16cancerian]

Ok, so im not a supporter of Aafia siddiqui, but she was a pakistani accused of "ATTEMPTING" TO KILL AMERICAN SOLDIERS, SHE DIDNT ACTUALLY KILL THEM THOUGH. SHE HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO "85" YEARS IN PRISON! AND RAYMOND DAVIS IS SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY "KILLED" TWO PAKISTANIS BUT AMERICA WANTS HIM FREE.

They sent a pakistani to jail (85 years) just bcoz she "tried" to kill americans...but their man actually killed pakistanis but they want him to be set free......justice????

[avjjloveyou]

提到中国了。。。

[NeutralExistence]

@ZILLADROID

Oh just like every other propaganda ministry the people at AlJazerra have their own agenda.

Notice how they avoid talking about the uprisings in Qatar?

Everyone has masters to serve, and an agenda behind what they do.

[Tounushi]

@MadXMax187

And a skunk defecates almost as much as a T.Rex.

[Tounushi]

Does the US mainstream media have any integrity?

[MadXMax187]

CNN lies almost as much as Fox noise