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Less than 100, or so it would seem. The now familiar images of The Fall of the Baghdad Statue have brought spasms of pleasure to all who knew this war to be just and good...why the Iraqis were practically begging us to bomb them and conquer their country so that we could liberate them into a blissful world of democracy and consumerism.
As it turns out, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld's collective glee was probably more because their entirely manufactured photo-op revolution was portrayed as a spontaneous grassroots event in all of the American media. For the straight dope, click on this link. The Iraqi military may have mostly collapsed, but where are the hugs? I remember being promised lots of hugs.
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that pretty much does it for any remaining delusion about 'winning hearts and minds'
 We regret to inform you that our cameraman and correspondent Tariq Ayoub was killed this morning during the US missile strike on our Baghdad office," the Qatar-based channel said in a statement read out during its news bulletin.
Shortly afterwards, US warplanes returned to hit the neighbouring Abu Dhabi TV offices.
“It seems that we have become a target,” said [correspondent Tayseer] Allouni.
killing Ayoub, virtually live on television, really sends a message to all the moderates in 'that part of the world' still 'on the fence' about how to 'feel about America'. especially coming on a day filled with other precision strikes against specific targets in the capital.
[Note: my web host is blaiming the terrible performance here on "anti-war cyber terrorists." blargh. maybe i will blame my late news story tomorrow on procrastination terrorists]
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I've read several complaints about journalists being barred by their organizations from attending anti-war demonstrations, etc. While perhaps they may have gotten away with attending pro-war rallies, there is nothing wrong with this prohibition. This is a good thing.
You can not have it both ways. Part of being a professional journalist is having no public affiliations; no membership in a political party, corporate board or Sierra Club. So no marching in a rally, unless you are there to cover it - but how likely is that?.
[thus my pen-name and the fact this site is absent from my resume...if i was working currently i would not update the site]
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sounds like we are almost ready to claim victory.
like what happened in afghaniland - as soon as the military says the war is "over" the media parrots this and hustles to assemble poignant video montages of post-game highlights. new developments are filed under "tying up loose ends."
this was a valuable lesson learned from the russians who leveled chechnya and told the world that it was "over" there, despite a war that has continued for years with daily military operations and russian casualties. just ask russian opera fans.
Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggested Thursday that coalition forces might not be gearing up for an urban conflict within Baghdad, but might instead isolate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and cut off his communications.
"You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls, that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country."
hey i thought thats where we're also being told all the WMDs are that we are so keen on removing? wasn't that the point?
most likely its part of the anything-but-urban-combat-mass-casualties approach, they just don't have enough soldiers (yet) to "do it right."
also, I know the german al-jazeera feed is now a pay service (as i feared, it was a victim of its popularity), they want € .10/minute. (That's one euro, or ~$1 for ten minutes)
A-J's english site seems to have re-emerged from the blitzkrieg of organized DOS attacks that kept it unavailable. There is also this site purporting to be AJ, but I'm almost positive it's another "Al Jazeerah"
Slate posted an article about the other media outlets in the ME. One of which, Al-Arabiya, is Arnett's new, new home, according to beirutcalling
okay, i really wanted an excuse to use my new icon.
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