Listening Post - Pakistan's information war - 29 May 09

For more than a month Pakistans military has been battling the forces of the Taliban in the country's Swat Valley region.

What the army calls Operation Black Thunder is is much more than just a military offensive. It has been backed by an aggressive media push by the Pakistani government.

Listening Post examines when the spin stops and the substance begins in the information war how the media in Pakistan cover the story.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• al
• jazeera
• richard
• gizbert
• swat
• valley
• fighting
• taliban
• media
• war
• refugees
• mingora

[trackerx41]

Haaaha! More ignorance.. and where do Talibans funds come from? From selling opium and heroin.. haraam items which they smuggle out of Afghanistan via Pakistan and Iran to so-called 'infidels' in Europe n America who buy the drugs.. so basically Taliban are infidel pigs as well since their main revenue comes from doing business with infidels.. haha! ur moral compass is fucked cave dweller, go get a real education.

[trackerx41]

ofcourse, for an ignorant Western runt, Al-Jazeera's reporting by default would be 'propaganda' while what is fed to you by your media is nothing but 'truth'.. I see how it goes

[SinbadReturns]

Geo T.V reporters are as curropt as the government!...They support anyone who pays them!

News One is the only Pakistani channel

which reports the truth & is not manipulated by the government & is brave enough to stand against both Government & Tehreek-e-Taliban...

It was News One who first exposed Baitullah Mehsud & his U.S links in it's show Brasstacks...

[pusherman19]

Ron Paul says it best. Alex Jones and Arron Russo are the front runners for western liberty, Obama is a Wall Street goon working for the Federal Reserve. JFK was killed for trying to abolish the FED. And if i dont have my facts right please enlighten me

[pusherman19]

At the same time the media reveals alot of bias information based on the private interests of the individual in control. All one can do is eliminate the private interests (Royalty, Central Banks) have faith in a free trade market and let the people run their own lives. .

[pusherman19]

The real enemey is the FED ... end the idea of Central Banks and people will be free...

As far as the media coverage in this video is concerned I dont think any military should control their own civillians, let alone cut the media out while doing so.

[mystz1]

go play ur xbox Indian cunt..

[mystz1]

tracker buddy dont waste your breath on user 'zamarino'.. he's a Dutch lunatic pretending to be a Taliban-supporting Muslim here to create divisions here

[zamarino]

hhhhhhhhhhhhh

i think i have already beaten your allegations about taliban-drugs associations, which is clearly a made up cia lie and very new one like that whore who tries to sell and gets lots of pub in the us about the subject. But i have used international orgs data released.

For your info, Taliban is hitting your pigs very hard in the hart of their home, and Taliban is regaining places the pigs army are telling the have under control, i say follow more news.

And we will see :D

[ptalknet]

Porkeys at it again.

[trackerx41]

dont waste my time lunatic.. those Taliban who eradicated drugs from Afghanistan are long gone.. today's Taliban are different.. learn to recognize the present n stop living in wetdreams of the past.. it is already proven by hundreds of sources that Taliban's major source of funding today is the opium production & smuggling.. now grow a brain & go do some research instead of wasting my time with ur nonsensical crass