'Left behind: 23 million Afghans at risk of starvation to add to the roughly 176,000 Afghans killed during America's longest war.'
To be fair, the CBS news organization as a whole devoted much more attention to the disastrous situation in Afghanistan than indicated by its evening news program. In fact, it alerted its"CBS Mornings" audience to the brewing crisis back on October 20 whenthat"95 percent of people in Afghanistan are going hungry" and featured an on-site account by correspondent Imtiaz Tyab.
But the morning network news shows generally attract only about a third of the audiences of their evening counterparts. Much more commendable was CBS's coverage of the humanitarian crisis in a nearly 15-minute segment featured on the December 12 edition of"60 Minutes," the nation's most widely watched prime-time public affairs program whose audience normally numbers about nine million.featured interviews not only with representatives of international humanitarian groups, but also with the Taliban's health minister.
What was missing in the"60 Minutes" segment, as with the two evening news segments about the crisis on the ABC and NBC, however, was any focus on the U.S. role in restricting or blocking funding that could help alleviate its catastrophic impact.
While the Biden administration in recent days has eased some restrictions on aid to non-governmental and international organizations in response to increasing international and
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