After Afghanistan
October 10, 2003
When it comes to the so-called War on Terror, it sometimes seems that the American news media can only focus on one conflict at a time. So when the press moved on to Iraq this year, Afghanistan faded from the nightly news, and was largely relegated to the nooks and crannies of American newspapers. Or was it? Lately, one of the clichés of media criticism is that Afghanistan is the “forgotten war.” But as Washington Post Kabul correspondent Pam Constable tells Bob, it’s really just that the nature of the story has changed.
