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Shameful neglect of evidence
By NILE BOWIE - 16 August 2014 @ 8:02 AM
NEARLY one month has passed since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over the skies of eastern Ukraine, taking the lives of 298 people. An international investigation is underway, led by the Netherlands, with members from Ukraine, Malaysia, the United States, Russia and others.
Though the team of investigators examining the crash site has yet to publish the findings and assign culpability to the responsible party, prominent media outlets have obediently toed the line of several western capitals with reports that all but categorically blame Russia for the aircraft’s demise.
Journalistic and analytical speculation cannot be avoided in such a tragic and geopolitically-charged situation. Media outlets have the responsibility to provide both critical commentary and impartial reporting to their readers, but in the case of MH17, the lack of balance is breathtaking.
Those parties who unreservedly point fingers at Moscow in the hours immediately following the disaster have yet to make public any forensic evidence that definitively implicates Russia in providing anti-Kiev militias with the training or hardware needed to take down a commercial airliner.
On the other hand, Russia’s Defence Ministry has made available compelling satellite images and military data that calls the Ukrainian government’s official narrative of events into question. Moscow’s findings have either been laxly underreported or dismissed as propaganda by the West.
read more here: Shameful neglect of evidence | New Straits Times
By NILE BOWIE - 16 August 2014 @ 8:02 AM
NEARLY one month has passed since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over the skies of eastern Ukraine, taking the lives of 298 people. An international investigation is underway, led by the Netherlands, with members from Ukraine, Malaysia, the United States, Russia and others.
Though the team of investigators examining the crash site has yet to publish the findings and assign culpability to the responsible party, prominent media outlets have obediently toed the line of several western capitals with reports that all but categorically blame Russia for the aircraft’s demise.
Journalistic and analytical speculation cannot be avoided in such a tragic and geopolitically-charged situation. Media outlets have the responsibility to provide both critical commentary and impartial reporting to their readers, but in the case of MH17, the lack of balance is breathtaking.
Those parties who unreservedly point fingers at Moscow in the hours immediately following the disaster have yet to make public any forensic evidence that definitively implicates Russia in providing anti-Kiev militias with the training or hardware needed to take down a commercial airliner.
On the other hand, Russia’s Defence Ministry has made available compelling satellite images and military data that calls the Ukrainian government’s official narrative of events into question. Moscow’s findings have either been laxly underreported or dismissed as propaganda by the West.
read more here: Shameful neglect of evidence | New Straits Times
