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i think they're really going to love this as much as charlotte beers "shared values":
The efforts in Iraq are the most urgent part of a long-range administration plan to blanket the Arab world with programming promoting American ideals, including a future 24-hour satellite station, the Middle East Television Network.
The White House has asked Congress for $62 million for the satellite station, which is scheduled to go on the air by year's end. The station, also overseen by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, will feature news, original Arabic programs and dubbed versions of U.S. prime-time fare. Station officials said they have hired a research firm that began conducting polls and focus groups in Persian Gulf states last month to help shape the programming.
but then, maybe they are not meant to like it?
"My days are finished and I will die - all I need is chilli fries"
- saddam rap / 2003 Central Intelligence Allstars
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Speculation that its all a dollar vs. euro thing has been offered from time to time, the gist of which argues that as more oil is sold in euros than dollars (as Saddam was doing since '99) we lose our ability to have huge deficits while cutting taxes for the wealthy. here is the argument laid out on a page even more unreadable than this one.
America was in serious trouble long before the Al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. Its real threat came not from the Middle East so much as from the EU with its new currency, the euro. Commanding 40% of world trade, the EU poses a major challenge to continued U.S. dominance.
If only a few Opec members switched to euros, argues Heard, that would hurt the U.S. in two critical ways: it would result in a stronger euro and an increase in the "eurozone" and it would trigger dollar dumping and depress the greenback's value.
in the same vein is the fact that we want to push our CDMA cell-phone technology over GSM, which is, like, what the rest of the world uses.
"If European GSM technology is deployed in Iraq, much of the equipment used to build the cell phone system would be manufactured in France, Germany, and elsewhere in western and northern Europe. Furthermore, royalties paid on the technology would flow to French and European sources, not U.S. patent holders," [Congressman Darrell] Issa (R-Calif.) said in his letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and USAID Administrator, Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain.
Elsewhere...
this must be the professionalism and honor the embeds keep telling us about:
"Beneath the dust, the imitation French Baroque furniture was painted gold. The palace had numerous swimming pools, and troops rifled through documents and helped themselves to ashtrays, pillows, gold-painted Arab glassware and other souvenirs of war.
At sundown, some troops carried a television from the palace, plugged it into a portable generator and mocked the Iraqi state-run broadcast. "That looks awfully like the Taliban to me," said one unidentified soldier, watching a segment of an old man, wearing a turban and clutching an assault rifle."
submitted by 'the sgt'
yeah, chris and david, you didn't jump into the fun? sat there in stoic professionalism?
[Update] I did not intend to sound so snarky toward these two. If I was with these guys, I'd probably play in their little production as Saddam, or better yet Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf, he's a firecracker.
But that's the entire problem with the embedding program.
Riding into battle over a year ago, the Afghan mujahideen Adam and I had “embedded” ourselves with were instant-comrades. Bouncing in the back of the truck with them, perched atop a pile of RPGs and AK-47s, the gulf of language and culture that separated us vanished. We exchanged jokes in pantomime as “Rajiv” inquired in broken English how well we knew Michael Jackson and Brittney Spears. We shared the little food we had and they promised the grand tour of Al-Qaeda caves. Just pallin' around.
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The los angeles times in Wednesday’s paper made much ado about shitcanning one of their photogs working in iraq for compositing two photos. Instead of a note in the ‘corrections’ textbox, it was given half a page on page four. They showed all three photos and overemphasized the point.
Why make such a big deal over what is a widespread practice? I agree it’s a dishonest practice, but to put on a dog and pony show of firing the guy?
Is it media martyrdom? A desperate cry for credibility? Seems like they wanted to make a point and this photographer had to be sacrificed.
One of my professors was sacked by the la times a year ago (at the behest of a 'compassionate conservative' congressman). Poor bastard took a the teaching gig because his growing family expected to eat. what he did was admittedly an error in judgment, but more of a reprimand-and-forgive offense than fuck-you-go-hang.
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 Our old friend and delusional ego-maniac jerry rivers (aka “Geraldo”) is eating pie again
"MSNBC is so pathetic a cable news network that they have to do anything they can to attract attention," Rivera said. "You can rest assured that whatever they're saying is a pack of lies."
A U.S. Central Command official said, "He is being pulled. He just doesn't know it yet. He has not gotten the word."
although our hearts are still aflutter from the 'thumbs up' he gave us at tora bora, I’m amazed he could get a job after making shit up at tora bora last year
[Note CNN’s generous application of the ‘blur tool’ to obfuscate the SECRET WAR PLANS carefully laid out in the sand]
in other news, peter arnett gets fired (less than 24 hours after being fully supported) by NBC for doing his job and offering some of the actual analysis missing from his colleagues
NBC News issued a statement supporting Arnett, saying that Arnett gave the interview to Iraqi TV as a "professional courtesy" and that his remarks "were analytical in nature and were not intended to be anything more."
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