Colombia needs better foreign reporting
by Adriaan Alsema November 10, 2021
Foreign media are not strengthening Colombia’s democracy or serving their readers’ interests if they replicate government propaganda and ignore society.
Local and national news allow citizens to be informed by showing a wide variety of issues that to a significant extent allows people to be informed about their society.
Foreign reporting, on the other hand, appears to disallow citizens to be informed about what is happening abroad even though globalization brings foreign issues increasingly closer to home.
Resolution 1267
Two years before the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington DC in 2001, the United Nations Security Council unanimously demanded of the Taliban in Afghanistan surrender Osama Bin Laden who had orchestrated an attack on the World Trade Center in New York City before.
Resolution 1267 was barely covered in US media, which allowed both the American people and the US government to relax.
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