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Assclown Alert: Zogby trashes U.S. in Saudi Arabia
EFL & Buttloads of Fun
A prominent Arab-American leader is trashing the United States government for managing the news in the Saudi Arabian media – where criticism of the royal family is strictly forbidden.
Note: He did so freely without U.S. government censorship.
The broadside by James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute and a frequent commentator on Arab and Muslim issues in the U.S media, appears in the current issue of Arab News, which describes itself as the first English-language daily in Saudi Arabia.
We hang by our thumbs awaiting his next insight.
In a piece of crap titled, "How U.S. Manipulates News to Suit Its Interests," Zogby charged the American press has deceived the public into believing Iraq was a threat and linked with international terrorism.
Well that makes sense. We know how supportive our media is of the WoT.
"In the American public’s mind Sept. 11, Afghanistan and Iraq have all been morphed into a vague but clearly threatening reality – a ’reality’ that has been cultivated by carefully managed news," he wrote.
Washington Post, New York Times, et al. They are just puppets of the Bush administration, no?
Zogby fantasizes claims the news coverage of the war is "managed and ’spun’ and, when needed, shifted to new topics – positive stories of victories. For a while, for example, as daily attacks against U.S. forces were taking their toll, public support for the war was declining. This required management. To a degree, the effort has been successful. Americans and Al-Q Iraqis continue to die, on a daily basis, but the stories of these deaths no longer generate front-page news coverage. For example, a series of attacks on U.S. forces on Christmas Day resulted in four American deaths. A review of a number of major U.S. daily newspapers found the story on page 39 in one, page 18 in another and not even appearing in another two."
Bush has his foot right on the neck of all major media outles, no?
"In a similar vein, Iraqi terrorist civilian deaths, resulting from actions by coalition forces, have all but disappeared from the U.S. press," he wrote, saying the Pentagon refuses to release such information to reporters.
Blah, blah, blah...funny he knows about these deaths. Guess the Pentagon is not doing a good job covering up all these deaths.
Posted by: Dragon Fly 2003-12-31
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