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Of a fluent situation. even as a foreigner, if you get the wrong person on the wrong day, that situation can very quickly become very dangerous. you're dealing how the cnn deals with the taliban. you're helping us... let's hear from another person who deals with them, secunder kermani. he's currently in the city of northern afghanistan. i told him we discuss these issues, and he kindly recorded this. there is definitely a sense - of privilege that comes from being an internationaljournalists. we've seen at times some _ of our afghan colleagues being badly beaten, tortured even, by the taliban....

The coverage is being carried. on that subject, let's bring in another person. alex sheppard is with new york public magazine. alex, is it reasonable to say that us media is already starting to move away from this story? certainly correct. i think there's a systemic myopia in media that focuses intently on partisan and electoral politics. the story almost instantaneously fed into this meat grinder in which it became a story about republicans and democrats disagreeing. you almost immediately had the sense that 20 years of combat was set to the side. everyone was focusing on the chaos at the air...

Time for the media show. hello, welcome to the media show. now, this week, we become aware of power battles within the taliban as we watch keenly to see what kind of government it wants to create. also this week, we're seeing increasing evidence the world's media is tuning out of afghanistan. well, we're not doing that on the media show — we're going to tune in to how western media and afghan media have covered this story. i want to understand the relationship between the taliban and journalists. i also want to understand whether this has revealed structural problems in how news works. has t...

That is directly related to years of corruption of the afghan government. we didn't get much of that because we had all these images of the airport. the other is i think the distinction between episodic and phonetic coverage. people like clarissa do an exceptionaljob showing us what's happening on the ground, but doesn't always happen is that becomes coverage. we get a narrow focus on what is happening. if those are some of the challenges for us media, sana, let's look at it from the other side.

Country. the other is to make sure the coverage is being carried. on that subject, let's bring in another person. alex sheppard is with new york public magazine. alex, is it reasonable to say that us media is already starting to move away from this story? certainly correct. away from this story? certainly correct- l _ away from this story? certainly correct. i think _ away from this story? certainly correct. i think there's - away from this story? certainly correct. i think there's a - correct. i think there's a systemic myopia in media that focuses intently on partisan and electoral politics....