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2003-09-23 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-09-23 8:35:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Haven't they been caught paying people for starting problems?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-9-23 8:52:25 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-9-23 8:52:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 If the Governing Council can get away with banning the incitement of violence in media, they might go further and ban the preaching of the Sunni triangle Mullahs.

Of course, if people really took the incitement to violence as a problem, there would have to be some hard thinking as to whether Islam itself should be banned. Hmmm. Actually that's pretty close to the actual position of the people over at faithfreedom.org.

Posted by mhw 2003-9-23 8:53:30 AM|| 2003-9-23 8:53:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 First sign that your network may be spouting anti-US propaganda: Your spokesman's name is JIHAD!!

Man...I couldn't make this stuff up...

Posted by mjh 2003-9-23 9:19:46 AM|| 2003-9-23 9:19:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Inciting violence is what these channels proclaim.
"They show men in masks carrying guns and call them
âresistanceâ

Hoo boy! That could be Sharon going on about BBC, AP, Reuters et al. Even the NYT fits this category.
It's funny when the shoe is on the other foot!

Posted by Barry 2003-9-23 10:03:27 AM|| 2003-9-23 10:03:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 RC - on the money - they've been caught paying for demonstrations, had their cameras set up early at riot/ambush sites, etc.

Active participants, not journalism

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-23 10:34:47 AM|| 2003-9-23 10:34:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Are you sure they didn't also ban CNN and BBC? Talk about BIAS!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-9-23 11:55:27 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:55:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's recall the incident soon after the major combat ended in which an al-Jazeera crew was hustled out of Basra and back to Kuwait for their own safety, after locals started attacking the car when they learned it was al-Jazeera. Funny, Iraqis (the majority who weren't on the payroll for the despot) regard al-Jazeera as collaborators with the ousted criminal regime. But to hear the absurd western media describe it, al-Jazeera's in hot water for doing "controversial" and "critical" reporting. Right.

About this same time, poor Tom Friedman in the NYT sneered about the need to do better PR in Iraq, because "FoxNews wasn't watched there" -- the same day, in the same paper, was a dispatch from northern Iraq about the explosion in information, satellite TV, and the excitement of Iraqis to have access. The reporter inquired about the favorite non-Arabic language news outlet for these newly liberated news consumers. Answer: FoxNews. Ouch.

Posted by IceCold 2003-9-23 12:32:04 PM|| 2003-9-23 12:32:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Pay no attention to Al Jiz's guy sitting in some Spanish clink for associating with terrorist groups. Just doing the research... nothing to see here. Really.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-23 1:50:57 PM|| 2003-9-23 1:50:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, and the Al-Jazeera employee who was acting as courier between Saddam and Osama.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-9-23 3:20:53 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-9-23 3:20:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Makes me nervous to have government censorship of media as one of the first major acts of a government we are trying to create. What we need is powerful, persuasive, popular alternatives to Al-Jiz. I think a big investment in creating U.S-friendly media outlets would pay bigger dividends over the coming decades than just about any other reconstruction project I can think of.

Posted by sludj 2003-9-23 6:20:45 PM|| 2003-9-23 6:20:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't throw out Al Jeezera. Infiltrate the sucker. Just don't let any Isalmic chaplians volunteer for the mission.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-23 6:34:56 PM|| 2003-9-23 6:34:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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