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Fri 16 Nov, 2007 09:03 am
Attention! Rupert Murdoch to frame German jail wardens in Afghanistan!
Hey! I'm a journalist. Sorry, I can't let you know my name because I'm gonna tell you something that endangers my life, or at least puts into question my journalist career.
As I have just learnt from my colleague, in a few days a number of newspapers and magazines in the US (The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post), the UK (News of the World, The Sun, The Sunday Times) and Australia (The Australian, The Sunday Mail, Notebook) will publish articles accusing German wardens in Afghan jails of practicing fiendish tortures to Afghan captives. The articles are said to be attached with shocking photographs picturing German wardens martyrizing inmates.
Actually these photographs are neither more nor less than images processed by Photoshop, when the newspapers and magazines that will publish them all belong to News Corporation which chief executive officer is Rupert Murdoch.
My colleague says that this move was suggested by Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey (BKSH) public relations company that works to craft positive image of the US in the world. As far as I understand, they think that it is only possible to whitewash Washington by representing US allies in an even more unfavourable light.
I don't know about the other papers, but in the UK the Murdoch papers you mentioned are not considered to be serious or trustworthy, especially the Sun and the News Of The World.
If this is true then that agency BKSH are rubbish. How does a story about cruel Germans make the US look good?
Anyway, you must be a rubbish journalist if you think Able2know is the place to break a story like this. So I don't believe you.
The ai-report
Detainees transferred to torture:ISAF complicity? is already online since November 13, btw.
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