Editor’s note: Seasoned foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay recently returned to Afghanistan to cover the pla…
; it’s a nerve-wracking waiting game.
“We have stopped all editorial and op-eds, now just very straight news, and we are very careful not to publish the criticisms and opinions,” he admitted. “And the ladies in our office must work from home. It is not safe for them to come here.” Only there is no panic in his halting English; it is as if he is already grieving a life that is long gone.Most of Afghanistan’s journalists and photographers, who have dedicated their lives to broadcasting news to the world, have next to no memory of life before the American invasion. Instead, they have grown accustomed to the Western-leaning values of free speech and autonomy to condemn, criticize and dig deep into controversial subjects.
TOLO TV, which offers news in various languages, was one of the most impressive operations to emerge from the bloodletting. The network was started in 2003 with a hefty grant from USAID, dispatching top-class reporters across the country and hosting riveting and informative programming 24/7. Yet others cautioned that the Taliban is already purporting using media outlets to intimidate and push out propaganda. Case in point: on Monday, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen called a BBC anchor live on-air to emphasize that they are awaiting “a peaceful transfer of power” and that it is “very important to have free media to criticize anyone, but they should avoid character assassination.”
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