Source/Credit: Pakistan Media Watch
By PMW | September 1, 2011
[Update] Responding to the accusations - via a communiqué to Pakistan Media Watch -The Nation claimed that the news-posts in question were actually a hacker's work and the outlet has taken steps to avoid such future incidents. We must also point out that Pakistan Media Watch appeared cheaply overjoyed for having been contacted by The Nation. [Ahmadiyya Times]
One year ago, Pakistan Media Watch revealed that Pakistan's right wing newspaper, The Nation, was publishing Taliban PR as news articles. Since that time, The Nation continues to publish Taliban propaganda including 61 pieces signed by Zabihullah Mujahid who is the official spokesman for Taliban.
This propaganda includes pieces which term suicide bombings as “martyrdom attack” and term the Afghanistan government as “Kabul stooge regime”.
It should be asked, writes Pakistan Media Watch, if The Nation believes that the suicide bombing outside a Quetta mosque that killed at least 11 people on Wednesday was also ‘martyrdom attack’.
When first reported this practice by The Nation of acting as a Taliban mouthpiece, Pakistan Media Watch wrote the following:
Reporting about important issues such as militancy, terrorism, war and security is a key role of the media. Doing this without direction from the government so that the reports are objective and unbiased is vital to a free media. But turning over use of media resources to the official spokespeople for any organization – especially a terrorist organization banned by the United Nations – is not free, objective, or unbiased. It is the opposite, which is called simply propaganda. We encourage The Nation to end this practice immediately.
Today, one year later, Pakistan Media Watch again repeated their call for The Nation to publish objective reporting of facts, not Taliban propaganda.
Read original post here: The Nation Still Publishing Taliban Propaganda
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