Baker
29th March 2003, 12:40 PM
Is anyone else sick of the Arab Media's anti-US news coverage of the war?
They have aright to not agree with the US's policy's and view's but if they have to lie and twist the facts about it then how can we take anything from them seriously?
Here are some examples to show you what I mean.
But the messages are uniformly anti-American: Americans are barbaric, and here are the pictures to prove it. We Arabs are heroic, and here are images of us downing their planes. Shots of Iraqi civilian casualties are a highlight of the coverage, as are those that show the "invading" forces suffering routs and setbacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45183-2003Mar28.html
Mr Boucher referred specifically to two reports which have received wide coverage in recent days: a deadly explosion at a market in Baghdad which Iraq has blamed on a US missile and an alleged bombing of a mosque by US forces.
He says the mosque bombing never occurred, and the market explosion was still under investigation although the US military says it may have been caused by an errant Iraqi missile.
"There have been people in Arab language media who automatically assume that the United States was responsible for this and they are turning it into some kind of American atrocity," Mr Boucher said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s818371.htm
While U.S. newspapers and television are filled with images of American troops helping injured Iraqi soldiers, media in the Arab and Muslim world are holding up pictures of Iraqi children killed and wounded in coalition air strikes.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030328-92332211.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/29/1048653900135.html
http://www.dailyillini.com/dec02/dec16/opinions/stories/letter05.shtml
They have aright to not agree with the US's policy's and view's but if they have to lie and twist the facts about it then how can we take anything from them seriously?
Here are some examples to show you what I mean.
But the messages are uniformly anti-American: Americans are barbaric, and here are the pictures to prove it. We Arabs are heroic, and here are images of us downing their planes. Shots of Iraqi civilian casualties are a highlight of the coverage, as are those that show the "invading" forces suffering routs and setbacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45183-2003Mar28.html
Mr Boucher referred specifically to two reports which have received wide coverage in recent days: a deadly explosion at a market in Baghdad which Iraq has blamed on a US missile and an alleged bombing of a mosque by US forces.
He says the mosque bombing never occurred, and the market explosion was still under investigation although the US military says it may have been caused by an errant Iraqi missile.
"There have been people in Arab language media who automatically assume that the United States was responsible for this and they are turning it into some kind of American atrocity," Mr Boucher said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s818371.htm
While U.S. newspapers and television are filled with images of American troops helping injured Iraqi soldiers, media in the Arab and Muslim world are holding up pictures of Iraqi children killed and wounded in coalition air strikes.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030328-92332211.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/29/1048653900135.html
http://www.dailyillini.com/dec02/dec16/opinions/stories/letter05.shtml