Apart from that, there is no doubt that attachment journalism is very compelling, but it is criticized for focusing only on human interest stories , consequently paying less attention to the bigger picture. . Karoline von Oppen (2009, p. 10) argues "that paradoxically, attachment journalism made us all spectators of an alien war, which meant we could absolve ourselves of any responsibility for its origins and to its representations,” because these human interest stories only serve to function. as a desensitization device, until the public accepts that the only solution is a military solution (von Oppen 2009) or known as "humanitarian intervention". And as mentioned above, such examples from the past have clearly shown how a leading news network manipulated information to win over the public. But in Martin Bell's defense, this was due to the 1991 Gulf War, where the focus was mainly on weapons and military strategies, and so he had to change the focus of the mainstream media towards one more human approach. In interesting reporting on desensitization, a former BBC Africa correspondent, George Alagiah, reported on famines, notably in the small town of Tonji. In his first report he was sure to include images of what starvation looks like so the public could identify and recognize it, and for his second he included interviews with prominent people he thought more insightful. But the response he received was that people only remembered the first report. Alagiah believes that human rights are an absolute truth and demands that the public understand, "but he is aware that this is not at all what his public seems to be doing, instead of taking a rigorous ethical stance, its audience and listeners... ... middle of paper ... a frenzy, but "if either side had paid more attention to conflict issues, their reporting would have been more accurate » (Lynch 2007, p. 9). Other critics like Thomas Hanitzsch often disagree with the notion of peace journalism. Galtung accuses traditional views of journalism of distorting reality, but here too, paradoxically, peace journalism shifts the focus of its reporting from an overview to a definitive problem (Hanitzsch 2005). Similar to von Oppen and Loyn, Hanitzsch argues that the chain of events created by a pacifist journalist could be actively contrary. Hanitzsch gives the example of two Indonesian newspapers that chose to skip reporting on the Ambon conflict because if they had not, the report could have stirred up emotions toward supportive or violent groups, which which would have put the newspapers themselves in danger (Hanitzsch 2005).