Winners get to write history, and that starts with the news. Victory in Afghanistan became ample justification for going to war in the first place; the message that overwhelming might makes right is ever-present, even if no one quite says so out loud. And when human flesh goes up in flames and human bodies shatter โ but not on our TV screens โ did it ever really happen?
Washindi wanapata kuandika historia, na hiyo huanza na habari. Ushindi nchini Afghanistan umekuwa wa kutosha ...
Norman Solomon ni mwandishi wa habari wa Marekani, mwandishi, mkosoaji wa vyombo vya habari na mwanaharakati. Solomon ni mshirika wa muda mrefu wa kikundi cha kuangalia vyombo vya habari cha Haki & Usahihi Katika Kuripoti (FAIR). Mnamo 1997 alianzisha Taasisi ya Usahihi wa Umma, ambayo inafanya kazi kutoa vyanzo mbadala kwa waandishi wa habari, na anahudumu kama mkurugenzi mtendaji wake. Safu ya kila wiki ya Solomon ya "Media Beat" ilishirikishwa kitaifa kuanzia 1992 hadi 2009. Alikuwa mjumbe wa Bernie Sanders kwenye Mikutano ya Kitaifa ya Kidemokrasia ya 2016 na 2020. Tangu 2011, amekuwa mkurugenzi wa kitaifa wa RootsAction.org. Yeye ndiye mwandishi wa vitabu kumi na tatu ikijumuisha "Vita Vilivyofanywa Isionekane: Jinsi Amerika Huficha Ushuru wa Kibinadamu wa Mashine Yake ya Kijeshi" (The New Press, 2023).