Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
OG you got it all wrong. one can dislike Al Jazeera and be opposed to idiotic actions as the one alleged.
I can not stand fox news or CBN but I would not want some moron to go blow it up. that does not make me defensive about Fox or be a supporter of Fox, just opposed to blowing the joint up.
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
I saw that on the bbc too. If any news network got this stuff first, they would be grateful for the scoop and run with it.
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
No, before Al-Jazeera there was a gentlemens agreement NOT to broadcast heinous and brutal videos. AJ wanted market share so they broke that taboo, and cloaked it in “truth”. Essentially what they did was give every homocidal maniac an outlet.
But I will stand by my opinion that AJ is far more damaging to Muslims than Fox ever would be. The images and hatred that originates in AJ, is direct from the horses mouth. I am neither a Fox fan, nor a trailer dweller, but Fox is but one network. The rest of the broadcast networks are decidedly left-leaning, meaning there is some balance to broadcasting. Take a course in propaganda some time, then make a list of all the emotionally-laden and inflamatory words and phrases in the following article.
The timing of Iraq war was cunningly manipulated11/30/2005 2:20:00 PM GMT Many analysts repeatedly stated that the U.S.-occupation in Iraq didn’t begin on 20 March 2003, and that the U.S. and UK had been waging an undeclared war against the country for twelve years, ever since the end of the Gulf Slaughter in 1991, with the aim of destroying the Iraqi society, enabling the American and the British governments control Iraq’s oil wealth.
This policy by the U.S. and Britain has truly been genocidal, and no amount of hypocritical moral posturing on the part of George W. Bush and Tony Blair can disguise this.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10005
This is not journalism, it is propaganda.
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
listen you trailer park, The videos that AJ shows are real videos of war. Their video’s are not fake videos with actors in them. War is not pretty. YOU want AJ to show videos of pretty little girls with flowers in pink dresses running around in Irak ?
AJ is showing real war. YOu neo-cons want AJ to not show images that would damage your war effort. BUt sorry AJ does not work for the US PR department. the job of AJ is to show things as they really are.
Propaganda is the job of fox news. GO watch your fox news.
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
So for you, this war is about beheadings, kidnapped aid workers and murderers speaking form caves? AJ gives these people legitimacy, then everyone wonders why Muslims can't get student visas. Gee genius, your PR machine is malfunctioning a bit. AJ shows the nasty underbelly of the Muslim world, and glamorizes violent jihad. Then you wonder why you are discriminated against? Doh!
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
Not the way to win hearts and minds. The “Commander and Chief” is quite the failure.
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US military planting stories in Iraqi newspapers
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to print stories written by US soldiers in an effort to polish the image of the American mission in Iraq a US newspaper reported.
US military “information operations” troops have written the articles, which are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based defense contractor, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Many articles are presented to Iraqi newspapers as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists, the daily said, citing documents it obtained and unnamed US military officials.
The stories denounce insurgents and tout the work of US and Iraqi troops and the US-led effort to rebuild Iraq.
The United States has paid Iraqi newspapers to publish dozens of articles, the LA Times said.
“The operation is designed to mask any connection with the US military,” it said.
The Lincoln Group helps translate and place the stories. The contractor’s Iraqi staff, or its subcontractors, sometimes pose as freelance journalists or advertising executives to hand the stories to Iraqi papers.
Some senior US military officers in Iraq and at the criticized the operation, saying it could ruin the US military’s credibility in other countries and with the US public.
“Here we are trying to create the principles of democracy in Iraq. Every speech we give in that country is about democracy. And we’re breaking all the first principles of democracy when we’re doing it,” a senior Pentagon official who opposes the planting of stories was quoted as saying.
Much of the effort was being directed by the “Information Operations Task Force” in Baghdad, part of the multinational corps headquarters commanded by Army Lieutenant General John Vines, the newspaper said.
The task force has even bought an Iraqi newspaper and taken control of a radio station, a military official said, refusing to name the outlets to protect their staff from insurgent attacks.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051130/pl_afp/usiraqmilitarymedia
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
hhahahhaha,
and this clown ohio guy is accusing AJ of propaganda.
It is well known that neocon republican facists have been paying newspapers to write stories that portray them in a positive light. This is the duty of fox news, to polish the image of the republican neo-con party.
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
^ planting fairy stories, lying, misinformation, claiming victory on a navy ship dressed up as Tom Cruise boy these lying terrorist amerikan Goverment has no credibility left!
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
We all this hilly billy ohio trash has 24/7 brain farts!
Don't get stressed over him! :D
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
Huh? Dear Ak47, are you OK?
Calm down Badshaho! No need to make bomb threats when a phone call would do. Top powers don’t talk in “memos” or by sending “video love letters” from some Afghan cave. They “just do it” as per Nike commercial.
Best regards
Re: Bush wanted ‘to bomb Al-Jazeera’!
How easily you skirt the issue that US is using biased reporting (disguised as independent reporting) to malign freelance journalism in iraq?