By Julie Hollar/FAIR
As U.S. troops finally made their exit from Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation, the Sunday shows – which have always aimed to set Washington agendas – were filled with guests who had direct ties to the military-industrial complex.
FAIR analyzed three weeks of ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, CNN’s State of the Union, Fox News Sunday and NBC’s Meet the Press during the Afghanistan withdrawal. We recorded 36 featured guest appearances and 33 roundtable participant appearances. Those who appeared on more than one show were counted every time they appeared; there were 24 unique featured guests and 32 unique panelists.
Of the 24 unique featured guests, only two were not from the U.S.: Roya Rahmani, the former ambassador to the U.S. from Afghanistan, and Yasmeen Hassan, the Pakistani director of the NGO Equality Now. The two were interviewed jointly in one CNN segment – the only segment in the study to center on the situation of Afghan women.
Posted on October 23, 2021