Die Petraeus-Medienoffensive

U.S.-General David Petraeus, neuer Kommandeur der ISAF- und U.S.-Truppen in Afghanistan, ist in die Offensive gegangen. In die mediale Offensive, heißt das. Genauer: in die mediale Offensive an der Heimatfront – internationale Medien sind, so weit ich das sehe, noch nicht dabei.

Um die Liste schon mal anzufangen: Nach dem Meet the Press bei NBC, der New York Times, dem Wired-Blog Dangerroom stehen noch die Washington Post (mit Rajiv Chandrasekaran, den Deutschen noch von seinem Stück über der Luftangriff von Kundus am 4. September 2009 bekannt) und CBS Evening News auf dem Programm.

(Lohnt vielleicht mal einen Vergleich der verschiedenen Interviews. Oder doch nicht?)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - JULY 4: Commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan US General David Petraeus (C) gives a thumbs up while attending an Assumption of Command Ceremony at the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) Headquarters on July 4, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Appointed by US President Barack Obama (following the dismissal of US General Stanley McChrystal), US General David H Petraeus formally took up his new role of commander of the Afghan war and the 140,000 foreign troops serving in Afghanistan during a ceremony at NATO headquarters in Kabul, in which colours of US and NATO forces were handed to him by German Army General Egon Ramms, Commander of NATO's Allied Joint Forces Command Brunssum. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – JULY 4: Commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan US General David Petraeus (C) gives a thumbs up while attending an Assumption of Command Ceremony at the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) Headquarters on July 4, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Appointed by US President Barack Obama (following the dismissal of US General Stanley McChrystal), US General David H Petraeus formally took up his new role of commander of the Afghan war and the 140,000 foreign troops serving in Afghanistan during a ceremony at NATO headquarters in Kabul, in which colours of US and NATO forces were handed to him by German Army General Egon Ramms, Commander of NATO’s Allied Joint Forces Command Brunssum. Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images – via picapp