EASTERN AFGHANISTAN ATTACK LEAVES 25 OR MORE KILLED

The story that I found was about 25 militants being killed when there was an attack on a NATO camp from MSNBC. An attack in Eastern Afghanistan killed around 25-30 insurgents according to this news story. Troops returned fire with their attackers but there were no civilian, NATO, or Afghan troop casualties. There was no mention of why the troops were attacked; it only says that the attacks were coming from the Pakistan side of the boarder. However, when looking at the articles from CNN and Fox, they both reported different casualties. CNN reported that more than 30 insurgents died and Fox reported that exactly 30 insurgents had died and 3 NATO militants, unlike MSNBC that said not NATO personnel was killed. The articles were basically the same in regards to the insurgents being attacked and killed and they all gave very brief general information on the subject. What I did find interesting was that all of the news stories did not only report on the insurgents being killed although that was the title of their article, they also reported on different things that were going on in Afghanistan. All of the news stations had a different story integrated in this main article about NATO troops being attacked. CNN also reported about ISAF deaths in a bombing and also about coalition forces conducting a precision air strike that killed a Taliban commander. FOX did mention the killing of the Taliban commander but also reported on the elections inside this story. They mentioned that there were rocket attacks and bombings at polling stations in Afghanistan. MSNBC reported the casualties of Denmark and Scandinavian troops and also included a story about the helicopter crash that remains a mystery. This only goes to show me that although news stations may report on the same topics, they take the importance of it differently and may have other stories they feel important within it as well. I think that we should know about this story, but the only problem is that more “important” things are happening that overshadow it. So although these stories are being reported on, they are only small in comparison to other stories that Americans find more important, such as Americans dying in attacks and things that are happening in the United States.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/25/afghanistan.violence/index.html?iref=allsearch

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/25/nato-afghan-journalists-freed-outcry-detainments-alleged-taliban-propaganda/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39315622