APFNAre you satisfied with TV's war coverage?Tue Apr 8 23:18:42 2003208.152.73.65How The News Will Be Censored In This War http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?topic=23 Are you satisfied with TV's war coverage? 47.1% Yes (1409 responses) 52.9% No (1585 responses) 2994 total responses (Poll results not scientific) Chicago Trib.Of course we anarchist's know Surveys & statistics are really stupid. 34% of all people know that. The Un-American Media By Ana Marie Cox | 3.28.03 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/05/1697109 There was a time you could safely assume that anyone calling skeptical coverage of the war in Iraq “un-American” was probably also speed-dialing Rush Limbaugh. Now it seems that calling skeptical coverage of the war “un- American” is probably correct, if only in the most literal sense. With the American press largely distracted or enraptured with the spectacle of combat, the duty of examining the motives behind the war has fallen to the world’s other media outlets. The audience for these un-American stories is becoming more and more American. In the past month, foreign news Web sites have seen large volumes of traffic from computers in the United States. Wired reported that almost half of the visitors to the Guardian Web site were Americans. Americans have also been flocking to Arab news sources, particularly the Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera. The channel reaches 150,000 households in the United States via satellite, but a newly launched English-language Web site reaches anyone with a modem. During the first week of the war, “Al Jazeera” rounded out the top three terms searched for on Google.com (along with “CNN” and “Iraq.”). This trend has been building steadily since the New Year, but the war has brought it to new heights. A media metric called “Blogdex,” developed by MIT’s Media Lab ranks Web sites by the number of independent-and mostly American-web diarists, or “bloggers,” linking to them. (Full disclosure: I am now a recreational blogger myself, at http://theanticmuse.blogspot.com ) It’s a fairly reliable indication of what people on the Internet are reading. Since the war began, almost every other site has been a foreign news source. What kind of stories have the bloggers pointed to? The Financial Times reporting on the invasion of Umm Qsar, “a small but politically significant battle that has become an embarrassment for the invasion force.” And the BBC reporting on a British jet downed by a “friendly fire” Patriot missile. One doesn’t have to rely on professional news sources to hear about Iraq, either: “Salam Pax” blogs from Baghdad itself. Read more http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=136_0_3_0_C ========================== Iraq Invasion Creates Perplexing Disconnects Newhouse News Service (NNS) - 6 hours ago ... Al-Jazeera television, criticized by American media for being vehemently pro-Iraq, gets the majority of its revenues from.... American media http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/sefton040803.html MID EAST NEWS: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?topic=47 Journalists Die, the Networks Lie, Iraqis Ask "Why?" CounterPunch, CA - 9 hours ago ... The Anglo-American media hasn't shrunk from distorting the truth and putting out disinformation in its scrambling to prove which one of its outlets can serve ... http://www.counterpunch.org/heard04082003.html MORE: AMERICAN MEDIA.... http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=American+Media&btnG=Search+News US, British view of UN role in Iraq sparks new divisions Irish Times - 5 minutes ago The United States and Britain appeared headed last night for another serious international diplomatic clash over Iraq. In their efforts to secure broad support for the post-war management of the country, President Bush and the British .. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2003/0409/1963892209HM1THELEAD.html Do you believe Saddam Hussein is still alive? — BAGHDAD IS LIBERATED, Thu Apr 10 02:58 Fury at US as attacks kill three journalists — Suzanne Goldenberg, Wed Apr 9 02:59 THE HALABJA GASSING AND OTHER LIES ABOUT IRAQ — freburz, Wed Apr 9 01:10 All about the Oil Wars — APFN, Wed Apr 9 03:36
APFNAre you satisfied with TV's war coverage?Tue Apr 8 23:18:42 2003208.152.73.65How The News Will Be Censored In This War http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?topic=23 Are you satisfied with TV's war coverage? 47.1% Yes (1409 responses) 52.9% No (1585 responses) 2994 total responses (Poll results not scientific) Chicago Trib.Of course we anarchist's know Surveys & statistics are really stupid. 34% of all people know that. The Un-American Media By Ana Marie Cox | 3.28.03 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/05/1697109 There was a time you could safely assume that anyone calling skeptical coverage of the war in Iraq “un-American” was probably also speed-dialing Rush Limbaugh. Now it seems that calling skeptical coverage of the war “un- American” is probably correct, if only in the most literal sense. With the American press largely distracted or enraptured with the spectacle of combat, the duty of examining the motives behind the war has fallen to the world’s other media outlets. The audience for these un-American stories is becoming more and more American. In the past month, foreign news Web sites have seen large volumes of traffic from computers in the United States. Wired reported that almost half of the visitors to the Guardian Web site were Americans. Americans have also been flocking to Arab news sources, particularly the Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera. The channel reaches 150,000 households in the United States via satellite, but a newly launched English-language Web site reaches anyone with a modem. During the first week of the war, “Al Jazeera” rounded out the top three terms searched for on Google.com (along with “CNN” and “Iraq.”). This trend has been building steadily since the New Year, but the war has brought it to new heights. A media metric called “Blogdex,” developed by MIT’s Media Lab ranks Web sites by the number of independent-and mostly American-web diarists, or “bloggers,” linking to them. (Full disclosure: I am now a recreational blogger myself, at http://theanticmuse.blogspot.com ) It’s a fairly reliable indication of what people on the Internet are reading. Since the war began, almost every other site has been a foreign news source. What kind of stories have the bloggers pointed to? The Financial Times reporting on the invasion of Umm Qsar, “a small but politically significant battle that has become an embarrassment for the invasion force.” And the BBC reporting on a British jet downed by a “friendly fire” Patriot missile. One doesn’t have to rely on professional news sources to hear about Iraq, either: “Salam Pax” blogs from Baghdad itself. Read more http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=136_0_3_0_C ========================== Iraq Invasion Creates Perplexing Disconnects Newhouse News Service (NNS) - 6 hours ago ... Al-Jazeera television, criticized by American media for being vehemently pro-Iraq, gets the majority of its revenues from.... American media http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/sefton040803.html MID EAST NEWS: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?topic=47 Journalists Die, the Networks Lie, Iraqis Ask "Why?" CounterPunch, CA - 9 hours ago ... The Anglo-American media hasn't shrunk from distorting the truth and putting out disinformation in its scrambling to prove which one of its outlets can serve ... http://www.counterpunch.org/heard04082003.html MORE: AMERICAN MEDIA.... http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=American+Media&btnG=Search+News US, British view of UN role in Iraq sparks new divisions Irish Times - 5 minutes ago The United States and Britain appeared headed last night for another serious international diplomatic clash over Iraq. In their efforts to secure broad support for the post-war management of the country, President Bush and the British .. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2003/0409/1963892209HM1THELEAD.html
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