{"id":6318,"date":"2009-10-28T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T04:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2009-10-29T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T00:58:45","slug":"malalai-joya-and-the-tale-of-2-cnns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/malalai-joya-and-the-tale-of-2-cnns\/","title":{"rendered":"Malalai Joya and the Tale of 2 CNNs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Bravest Woman in Afghanistan,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malalai_Joya\">Malalai Joya<\/a> did two CNN interviews on Thursday.  Joya is an elected member of the Afghanistan parliament who has been suspended for &#8220;insulting fellow members of parliament&#8221; in a television interview.    She is articulate and firm in her position that the Western occupation is feeding the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The first interview was broadcast on CNN (US).   In the middle of the interview, as Joya made clear she opposed US occupation, interviewer Heidi Collins said &#8220;occupation would certainly be your word, a lot of people would take great issue with you calling the US presence in your country an &#8216;occupation&#8217;.&#8221;  Joya went on to defend her position as Collins&#8217; interrupted snidely.  As Joya tried to respond to Collins, she was cut off.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=world\/2009\/10\/28\/nr.woman.among.warlords.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The second interview took place on CNN International.   Joya&#8217;s anti-occupation position was highlighted up front and the interviewer was polite and respectful.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_JYhMg6_Q5k&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Bravest Woman in Afghanistan,&#8221; Malalai Joya did two CNN interviews on Thursday. Joya is an elected member of the Afghanistan parliament who has been suspended for &#8220;insulting fellow members of parliament&#8221; in a television interview. She is articulate and firm in her position that the Western occupation is feeding the violence. The first interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}