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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Two videos you haven’t seen on FOX News or the MSM.
THE QUESTION IS WHY?!
1. Video tapes/clips of McCain - Demanding Immediate and Unconditional Withdrawal of American Troops from Somalia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TFKXHiefs
2. [...]
… or that’s what it’s supposed to be.
Things are not as bad as we say? Right… They are much worse.
In this BBC Interview with journalist Patrick Cockburn on Iraq: “We don’t report the good news? Tell me where it is and I’ll go there right away.”
I thought the American occupation said that everything is cool [...]
Some of my favorite cartoons about ‘freedom of press’ from Bendib!
(Click on thumbnail to view)
Racism, Not Ignorance, Plagues the Media Covering Palestine
Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net
Racism is “the belief that one ‘racial group’ is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination.” This is how the British Library wished to [...]
Few days ago, AFP interviewed me by email. Today, I was happy to find that the interview was published in few places.
First, here is Aljazeera version:
Weblogs soar in Gulf states
Internet blogs are giving rise to a new breed of Arab activist as ordinary residents increasingly use them to press for political rights and civil liberties [...]
The invasion of Iraq heralded promises of freedom from tyranny and equal rights for the women of Iraq. But three years on, the reality of everyday life for women inside Iraq is a different story.
By Zeena Ahmed
This Channel4 Dispatches film provides a compelling account of life inside Iraq that is rarely seen on news bulletins: [...]
News that don’t make News, at least not for the newsmakers of the West.
Here is some for your weekend reading.
I wish I can say “enjoy reading” but honestly, nothing joyful in what they report!
NEW YORK TIMES AD, Sunday, April 16th, 2006
1. The Council for the National Interest Foundation putting full page ad on the Israeli [...]
Reuters Iraq Newsmaker Debate (Part 1): Hello, we are about to start. Launch video, Launch audio, both Live Now!
Stay tuned. Live coverage begins in less than two hours. Join us in the web coverage of the Reuters Iraq Newsmaker debate.
A live webcast of the panel discussion, real-time blogging from around the world, a live chat, and related news will be avaliable here.
Let’s have good news from Iraq, please. No! Not possible? Why?
Rebecca MacKinnon - Global Voices: How does the nature, quality, and content of media coverage of the Iraq war ultimately impact the lives of people in Iraq, the Middle East and around the planet?
In your country, how does the media’s Iraq coverage rate? Fair and [...]
Rumsfeld yesterday called for the military and other government agencies to mount a far more aggressive, swift and nontraditional information campaign to counter the messages of extremist and terrorist groups in the world media.
Rumsfeld criticized the absence of a “strategic communications framework” for fighting terrorism. He also lashed out at the U.S. media, which he [...]
The News of the World today has a snapshot from a video showing British troops abusing some Iraqi boys, supposedly shot in Iraq in 2004.
SHAMED BY 42 BRAINLESS BLOWS
By Robert Kellaway
TODAY we expose a rogue squad of British soldiers who savagely attacked a defenceless bunch of Iraqi teenagers �and with 42 brutal blows brought shame [...]
Roger Thomas looks at the commotion in Davos stirred up by the publication of an article entitled �Boycott Israel� in the World Economic Forum�s official organ, Global Agenda.
What do you call a man, effectively the proprietor of a magazine called Global Agenda in one of his roles, who attempts to censor an article in his [...]
Let’s start with a short story:
A guy has a dog that only barks, a lot. So he got sick of it and decided to take it to a Pet Doctor.
After the doctor checked the dog, he told the owner; listen, this dog is deaf, blind and can’t sniff!
The dog owner asked; then why is it [...]
A tremor was felt also in the neighbouring United Arab Emirates, prompting many people to evacuate buildings.
Witnesses in high-rise buildings said they felt the ground shaking beneath them for about a minute. Many residents evacuated their buildings and waited on the streets.
Quake of 6.1 magnitude,
hit some 58 km (36 miles) southwest of Bandar Abbas at [...]
WAN Press Freedom Report: The Arab World One of the Most Troubling Regions
The World Association of Newspapers’s press freedom review was presented to its Board, meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 14 November. The report states that the Middle East and North Africa is one of the most troubling regions in the world for press freedom, [...]
Almost six in 10 now say Bush is not honest, and a similar number say his administration does not have high ethical standards. [Ipsos poll]
Am I surprised?
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah will replace his ailing crown prince with Prime Minister Sabah Al Ahmed. They said that the current crown prince, Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah “is currently in London on convalescence following a health failure”.
Yahoo added blogs to its news search engine Tuesday so that blog links now appear next to news stories from major media web sites, further institutionalizing what was once mainly a grassroots publishing phenomenon.
The main page of Yahoo News Search now displays results with mainstream news media results on the left while blogs are displayed [...]
So it’s official. Saudi television presenter Rania Al-Baz whose near-death assault by her ex-husband Mohammed Al-Fallata was widely reported, has fled the country and decided not to return.
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