Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Reporters, perverse creatures that we are, love the word censor, says reporter, Arthur Kent. He describes censorship as somebody having something very juicy to hide and it's always in the public interest to find out what it is and tell people about it, it's our journalistic call to arms. Arthur is here to describe his first trip to Afghanistan, 20 years ago. He shows a film of his trip there and asks us not to watch out of sympathy for the Afghans, but to feel free to feel a little enlightened self interest because the message, he says, is if our wealthy developed countries continue to practice this kind of foreign policy, then we can't be surprised when the wreckage lands on our front door step. Watch, as Arthur tells us the good news too, that if our governments approach this problem in a thinking, analytical and determined way, this quarter century old conflict could be solved and bring stability to Afghanistan, and again brings up the point of censorship, specifically commercial censorship, and the information we are being shown, or not.
Reporters, perverse creatures that we are, love the word censor, says reporter, Arthur Kent. He describes censorship as somebody having something very juicy to hide and it's always in the public interest to find out what it is and tell people about it, it's our journalistic call to arms. Arthur is here to describe his first trip to Afghanistan, 20 years ago. He shows a film of his trip there and asks us not to watch out of sympathy for the Afghans, but to feel free to feel a little enlightened self interest because the message, he says, is if our wealthy developed countries continue to practice this kind of foreign policy, then we can't be surprised when the wreckage lands on our front door step. Watch, as Arthur tells us the good news too, that if our governments approach this problem in a thinking, analytical and determined way, this quarter century old conflict could be solved and bring stability to Afghanistan, and again brings up the point of censorship, specifically commercial censorship, and the information we are being shown, or not.
