February 24, 2007
Saturday press review: Balanced reporting in The Reporter
How about this for balanced reporting.
In the left hand column, we hear about the New York Times' scoop about secret US military operations in Ethiopia.
According to the New York Times Ethiopia had been a staging point for a US covert operation in Somalia and its airstrip was used for the air raids conducted by American warplanes.And in the right hand column, there is a story saying - 'Everything you have read in the left hand column is nonsense'.
"This is simply a total fabrication," Bereket Simon, special adviser to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, told the Associated Press.And what exactly does the headline mean? Is it that it is now official that the NYT story was a fabrication? Or is it that an official said the NYT story was a fabrication?
The gruesome graphic at the top right, by the way, is the logo of The Reporter's continuing campaign against the country's new press law. The woman with her neck in the noose represents press freedom.
Posted by aheavens at February 24, 2007 12:32 PM