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| Supervising board criticizes IRIB for pro-Iraq reporting of war |
| 2003-04-08 |
| The supervising board of state TV has criticized the network for biased reporting of the Iraqi crisis in favor of the Iraqi regime, cautioning that this could threaten Iran's interests. Oooh! Lookit! The Medes and the Persians have discovered the concept of "before and after," with "after" only a day or two away... The Persian-language daily `Abrar' on Tuesday quoted Nasser Qavami, a member of the Board to Supervise the Performance of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), as saying that the supervisors in a meeting on Monday had unanimously agreed that the IRIB was slanted in its reporting of the Iraqi crisis. No! State-run terriblevision? Slanting its reporting? That's never happened before, has it? Qavami said the board had thus decided to ask the IRIB and the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) to report whether they had a particular guideline on how to cover the developments of the war. He also said the board had asked the SNSC to notify the IRIB of its guidelines through secret procedures. IRIB's mode of reporting the Iraqi crisis had already provoked the ire of the parliamentarians on Sunday when several of them voiced concern that the state TV, only answerable to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, was defying Iran's positions of neutrality toward the crisis. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 "provoked the ire of the parliamentarians on Sunday when several of them voiced concern that the state TV, only answerable to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, " More internal power jockeying between moderate reformers and hardline ayatollahs. IRIB is directly controlled by Khamenei - the parlimentary guys would, I presume, dearly love to pry it away from him. Now who is this Qavami? |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-08 11:32:24 |