What’s ironic about these numbers [poll results of a positive attitude in Afghanistan] is that they essentially contradict virtually all of the CBC’s [Canadian Broadcasting Company] own reporting over the past few years, which has been relentlessly downbeat and negative. We keep hearing that Afghans are disappointed and frustrated with the Canadian air effort, that they perceive Canadian soldiers as occupiers and that they’re disillusioned with the Karzai government. Now the CBC’s own opinion poll shows this meme to be completely false.
It is clearly too much to expect that this evidence, gathered by the CBC, will have any effect on the CBC’s coverage of Afghanistan. After all, who would know better than the CBC that their reporting is not to be trusted?
You know, where official news is hard to distinguish from an Onion parody, it might be wise to reconsider standard journalistic practice. Case in point, this article about how the decrease in violence in Iraq is hurting cemetery workers.