International media outlates opened unfair and orchestrated international media attacks on Ethiopia: Ethiopia Current Issues Fact Check
Bahir Dar, 11 August, 2021(AMC)-Ethiopia Current Issues Fact Check said the Prime Minister’s call to all Ethiopians in every corner to guard their nation from the further incursions and hostility of the terrorist group of TPLF has been presented by many media outlets in a skewed way.
According to the statement by Ethiopia Current Issues Fact Check, the scan of most of the headlines issued yesterday (August 10th) following the release of the statement is telling of the disconnect and/or intentional misrepresentation.
After an audible silence for weeks not fully raising the alarm on the hostility of the terrorist group TPLF and the atrocities the group has committed in Amhara and Afar regions, most have chosen rather to distort a nation’s call for survival as a call against Tigray, the statement said.
The statement said, furthermore, all headlines fail to show the perpetrators against which an entire nation has risen, rather framing the Government as perpetrator instead.
the statement stressed that most westerd media outlets used the term ‘Tigray forces’ purposely to draw divides within communities. Considering that ‘Tigray’ is a region within Ethiopia, headlines continue making it seem like Ethiopia is at war with a separate state called Tigray and with Tigryans, the statement added.
“Similarly, by using terms like ‘Tigray forces’ ‘tigrayan forces’, efforts to depict the national call in a manner that is against an entire regional state or a people of a regional state is tantamount to purposely intensifying divides in a sensitive situation. International media houses are equally culpable in spewing divisive narratives,” Ethiopia Current Issues Fact Check stated.
the statement emphasized that most of the headlines and the content of the stories continue to deny through silence and turn a blind eye to the role a terrorist organization TPLF is playing in wreaking havoc in the stability of the country, rather choosing instead to continue blaming the Prime Minister as an individual.
According to the statement, AFP issued a piece ‘Timeline of Ethiopia’s Conflict’ riddled with a myopic view of events and purposely calling into question the rule of law operations launched in November 2020 in response to TPLF’s attack of the Northern Command.
The undermining nature of the piece, like most other ones that pull into question TPLF’s aggression when the TPLF itself admitted to have taken pre-emptive strikes against the Northern Command is questionable, it said.
According to the statement, the continued character assassination of the Prime Minister evident in most pieces like copy/paste scripts among media houses is characteristic of how little effort the media is exerting to understand the context and continuous oversimplification of the overall situation as just a single story.
AP’s and the Washington Post’s continued sympathetic narrative to a group designated ‘terrorist’ in a Constitutional process raises a lot of concerns for the standard of ‘nonpartisan journalism’ that many media outlets pride themselves for, the statement stated.
The statement said that the refusal by most international media outlets to acknowledge that a sovereign nation and its parliament have designated TPLF a terrorist group and the aggrandizement of the terrorist group is tantamount to misinforming the world purposely.
The statement underscored that that these are among a few of the examples that constitute orchestrated gross misrepresentations of a country of more than 100 million, gross misrepresentation of a people, a government and a head of state in favor of rebel group.
The satement finaly said, media monitoring results indicate these common trends over the past 9 months of reporting on Ethiopia which calls into doubt the principles of fairness!
Source: Ethiopia Current Issues Fact Check
August 11, 2021
