Perspectives
On the Drudge report there is a link to the Guardian in which an articale talks about the U.S. media looseing thier leadership role. This articale I have read several times and still do not figure out whatr they are talking about. In the breakdown of how the U.S. media is looseing creditablity they site a pro war perspective. I just do not swallow this idea at all.
A pro war perspective by the MSM in America? Amazing how they can draw this conclusion. They also give koodo's to Al Jazeera and its coverage of "murdered innocents". tghis too I find very hard to believe as many of Al's reports are of fabricated events from a spun pro Isamofacist point.
US media at 'all-time low'
Julia Day in Qatar
Thursday February 2, 2006
Arabic-language media have an unprecedented chance to take over as the world's premier news source because trust in their US counterparts plummeted following their "shameful coverage" of the war in Iraq, a conference heard today.
The US media reached an "all-time low" in failing to reflect public opinion and Americans' desire for trusted information, instead acting as a "cheerleader" for war, said Amy Goodman, the executive producer and host of US TV and radio news show Democracy Now!, at a news forum organised by al-Jazeera.
A failing to show American opinion? Seems that all the polls I see and people I talk to are in favor of what we are doing. Maybe not happy with results at present but supportive of democracy.
They continue:
"The US media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. With the rise of al-Jazeera and independent media there is a chance for the Arab media to react back, but instead what we get is a clash," said Ethan Zuckerman, the co-founder of Global Voices Online and research fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
"I would urge everyone involved with new Arabic media not just to report on this [Arabic] world more fairly and accurately, but to report on the whole world more fairly and accurately. I challenge al-Jazeera and the new Arabic media players to do a better job that the US in covering the rest of the world," he said.
Ms Goodman said in the run-up to the Iraq war a study of NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS newscasts over a fortnight recorded 393 interviews on the conflict, of which only three reported the anti-war movement.
"This is a media cheerleading for war and does not represent mainstream opinion in the US," she added.
(THERE IS MEDIA CHEERLEADING? YES THATS TRUE BUT NOT IN AMERICAN FAVOR. NOTICE HOW THEY SITE THAT BEFORE THE WAR, NOT DURING THE WAR THEY MAJORITY OF REPORTS WERE IN FAVOR OF MILITARY ACTION NOT AGAINST. THE CLAIM ARABIC REPORTERS DO A BETTER JOB IS ABSURD. WANNA TALK ABOUT A BIAS REPORT. ARABIC REPORTERS REFUSED TO SITE ATROCITIES COMMITED BY THIER FELLOW MUSLIMS AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN THE SUDAN, OPPRESSION BY THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT, IRQA GOVERNMENT AND ITS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. IRANIAN SECRETE POLICE COMING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO REMOVE PEOPLE. TALK ABOUT SHAMFUL REPORTING.)
Ms Goodman said she believed the policy of embedding reporters with coalition forces was "a total failure for independent journalism ... western audiences need to see the other side of the story - from communities and hospitals".
(SHE IS RIGHT. THE STORY OF HOW AMERICAN AND COALITION FORCES HAVE BEEN SAVING INNOCENTS OF SUICIDE BOMBERS, HELPING THE WOUNDED ENEMY COMBATANTS EVEN THOUGH THEY WILL HEAL AND TRY TO KILL INNOCENTS AGAIN.)
"If people in the US had a true picture of war - dead babies, women with their legs blown off, dead and dying soldiers - they would say 'no'," she said.
(YES IF MORE AMERICAN MEDIA OUTLETS WOULD REPORT ON THE THINGS THE MILITARY IS DOING, CIVILAIN CONTRACTORS AND THE REBUILDING THAT IS GOING ON. NOT FOCUSING IN ON A SPUN STORY TO TRY AND WIN PUBLIC OPINION ON A FLASEHOOD OF ATROCITIES NEVER COMMITED.)
"There is nothing more important than the media - it is more powerful than any bomb or missile and we have to take it back ... we need a media that is independent and honestly showing us the images, the hell, ugliness and brutality of war, not selling us war."
( HERE SHE IS RIGHT AGAIN THE MEDIA NEEDS TO BE TAKEN BACK AND PUT INTO ITS PLACE. A PLACE WHERE THEY REPORT AND NOT SPIN. A PLACE WHERE CREDITABLITY IS ONCE AGAIN THE AIM OF REPORTERS NOT THE WINNING OF SOME AWARD ON A SLANTED OR MADE UP STORY. WHERE PEOPLE LIKE RATHER, BROKAW, AND JENNINGS ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT THEY SAY. BACK TO A TIME WHERE YOU CHECK, RECHECK , THEN CHECK YOUR FACTS AND SOURCES AGAIN BEFORE YOU RUN WITH A STORY.
AS FOR THE MSM TRYING TO SELL A WAR, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT MEDIA OUTLET FROM THE U.S.A. SHE IS PAYING ATTENTION TO. FOX IS THE ONLY ONE WHO RUNS ANY PROWAR STORIES AND THESE ARE FAR AND FEW BETWEEN.)
Mr Dickey, the Middle East regional editor and Paris bureau chief at Newsweek magazine, said US media were "dying".
He added that the gap between what the US and Arabic media reports was widening. with American reports being "all about victory and the Arabic being all about victims".
(AMERICA WINNING? WOW THIS IS A NEWS BREAKER IN AMERICA BECAUSE I SURE HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THAT ON ABC,CBS, NBC, OR PBS.)
"Even Arabs who live in the west are giving up watching western networks and tuning to Arabic networks instead," Mr al-Kasim said.
(ARABS TURNING TO ARABIC T.V. I WONDER WHY? COULD IT BE DUE TO THE PROPAGANDA WAR BEING WON BY THE ARABIC MEDIA? THIS IS MORE TO THE POINT. WITH THE AID OF STORIES FROM THE LEFT LIKE THIS ONE FROM THE GUARDIAN PROCLAIMING AMERICAN BIAS IN FAVOR OF THE WAR. SOMETHING THAT HERE IN AMERICA WE DEFINATELY ARE NOT SEEING. A CENSORSHIP BY THE MEDIA ON THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY ISLAMOFACIST PUNKS,WHO BEHEAD INNOCENTSA WHO ARE TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE. A PROISLAMIC FAVOR ON ANY AND ALL STORIES COMING FROM AROUND THE WORLD. NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE TURNINGTO OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE TRUTH.)
READ THE FULL STORY AT THIS ADDRESS:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1700692,00.html
A pro war perspective by the MSM in America? Amazing how they can draw this conclusion. They also give koodo's to Al Jazeera and its coverage of "murdered innocents". tghis too I find very hard to believe as many of Al's reports are of fabricated events from a spun pro Isamofacist point.
US media at 'all-time low'
Julia Day in Qatar
Thursday February 2, 2006
Arabic-language media have an unprecedented chance to take over as the world's premier news source because trust in their US counterparts plummeted following their "shameful coverage" of the war in Iraq, a conference heard today.
The US media reached an "all-time low" in failing to reflect public opinion and Americans' desire for trusted information, instead acting as a "cheerleader" for war, said Amy Goodman, the executive producer and host of US TV and radio news show Democracy Now!, at a news forum organised by al-Jazeera.
A failing to show American opinion? Seems that all the polls I see and people I talk to are in favor of what we are doing. Maybe not happy with results at present but supportive of democracy.
They continue:
"The US media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. With the rise of al-Jazeera and independent media there is a chance for the Arab media to react back, but instead what we get is a clash," said Ethan Zuckerman, the co-founder of Global Voices Online and research fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
"I would urge everyone involved with new Arabic media not just to report on this [Arabic] world more fairly and accurately, but to report on the whole world more fairly and accurately. I challenge al-Jazeera and the new Arabic media players to do a better job that the US in covering the rest of the world," he said.
Ms Goodman said in the run-up to the Iraq war a study of NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS newscasts over a fortnight recorded 393 interviews on the conflict, of which only three reported the anti-war movement.
"This is a media cheerleading for war and does not represent mainstream opinion in the US," she added.
(THERE IS MEDIA CHEERLEADING? YES THATS TRUE BUT NOT IN AMERICAN FAVOR. NOTICE HOW THEY SITE THAT BEFORE THE WAR, NOT DURING THE WAR THEY MAJORITY OF REPORTS WERE IN FAVOR OF MILITARY ACTION NOT AGAINST. THE CLAIM ARABIC REPORTERS DO A BETTER JOB IS ABSURD. WANNA TALK ABOUT A BIAS REPORT. ARABIC REPORTERS REFUSED TO SITE ATROCITIES COMMITED BY THIER FELLOW MUSLIMS AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN THE SUDAN, OPPRESSION BY THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT, IRQA GOVERNMENT AND ITS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. IRANIAN SECRETE POLICE COMING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO REMOVE PEOPLE. TALK ABOUT SHAMFUL REPORTING.)
Ms Goodman said she believed the policy of embedding reporters with coalition forces was "a total failure for independent journalism ... western audiences need to see the other side of the story - from communities and hospitals".
(SHE IS RIGHT. THE STORY OF HOW AMERICAN AND COALITION FORCES HAVE BEEN SAVING INNOCENTS OF SUICIDE BOMBERS, HELPING THE WOUNDED ENEMY COMBATANTS EVEN THOUGH THEY WILL HEAL AND TRY TO KILL INNOCENTS AGAIN.)
"If people in the US had a true picture of war - dead babies, women with their legs blown off, dead and dying soldiers - they would say 'no'," she said.
(YES IF MORE AMERICAN MEDIA OUTLETS WOULD REPORT ON THE THINGS THE MILITARY IS DOING, CIVILAIN CONTRACTORS AND THE REBUILDING THAT IS GOING ON. NOT FOCUSING IN ON A SPUN STORY TO TRY AND WIN PUBLIC OPINION ON A FLASEHOOD OF ATROCITIES NEVER COMMITED.)
"There is nothing more important than the media - it is more powerful than any bomb or missile and we have to take it back ... we need a media that is independent and honestly showing us the images, the hell, ugliness and brutality of war, not selling us war."
( HERE SHE IS RIGHT AGAIN THE MEDIA NEEDS TO BE TAKEN BACK AND PUT INTO ITS PLACE. A PLACE WHERE THEY REPORT AND NOT SPIN. A PLACE WHERE CREDITABLITY IS ONCE AGAIN THE AIM OF REPORTERS NOT THE WINNING OF SOME AWARD ON A SLANTED OR MADE UP STORY. WHERE PEOPLE LIKE RATHER, BROKAW, AND JENNINGS ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT THEY SAY. BACK TO A TIME WHERE YOU CHECK, RECHECK , THEN CHECK YOUR FACTS AND SOURCES AGAIN BEFORE YOU RUN WITH A STORY.
AS FOR THE MSM TRYING TO SELL A WAR, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT MEDIA OUTLET FROM THE U.S.A. SHE IS PAYING ATTENTION TO. FOX IS THE ONLY ONE WHO RUNS ANY PROWAR STORIES AND THESE ARE FAR AND FEW BETWEEN.)
Mr Dickey, the Middle East regional editor and Paris bureau chief at Newsweek magazine, said US media were "dying".
He added that the gap between what the US and Arabic media reports was widening. with American reports being "all about victory and the Arabic being all about victims".
(AMERICA WINNING? WOW THIS IS A NEWS BREAKER IN AMERICA BECAUSE I SURE HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THAT ON ABC,CBS, NBC, OR PBS.)
"Even Arabs who live in the west are giving up watching western networks and tuning to Arabic networks instead," Mr al-Kasim said.
(ARABS TURNING TO ARABIC T.V. I WONDER WHY? COULD IT BE DUE TO THE PROPAGANDA WAR BEING WON BY THE ARABIC MEDIA? THIS IS MORE TO THE POINT. WITH THE AID OF STORIES FROM THE LEFT LIKE THIS ONE FROM THE GUARDIAN PROCLAIMING AMERICAN BIAS IN FAVOR OF THE WAR. SOMETHING THAT HERE IN AMERICA WE DEFINATELY ARE NOT SEEING. A CENSORSHIP BY THE MEDIA ON THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY ISLAMOFACIST PUNKS,WHO BEHEAD INNOCENTSA WHO ARE TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE. A PROISLAMIC FAVOR ON ANY AND ALL STORIES COMING FROM AROUND THE WORLD. NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE TURNINGTO OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE TRUTH.)
READ THE FULL STORY AT THIS ADDRESS:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1700692,00.html
