The Afghanistan war was 'the least reported war since at least WWI'

Afghan reporter.
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Although the U.S. exit from Afghanistan has dominated the news cycle these last few weeks, the war as a whole received "relatively little media attention in the past 20 years, especially compared to other conflicts in the region," Axios reports.

In fact, the war in Afghanistan was "the least reported war since at least WWI," said Benjamin Hopkins, a historian specializing in the history of Afghanistan at George Washington University. He purported there to be two reasons for this, both of them playing into the press' partial culpability for "what went wrong" in Afghanistan, Axios writes.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.