{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"U.S. government sugar-coats Afghan war news for sweet-toothed  U.S. media","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4363.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4363.html'\u003EU.S. government sugar-coats Afghan war news for sweet-toothed  U.S. media\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmerica reigns supreme in Afghanistan in air power and in its own press releases.  Western press offices are surging within Afghanistan to battle the Taliban. Each Provincial Reconstruction Team, Task Force, brigade, squadron, base, command, agency, sub-agency and ice cream stand seems to have its own press office. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nPress offices also exist at the U.S. Embassy - Kabul, USAID - Kabul and as part of each Western embassy.  NATO\/ISAF has its own publicity machine, as does the United Nations and (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}