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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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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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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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slate.com, which occasionally doesn't suck, provides detailed instructions for accessing iraqi tv live over the web through a proxy server.
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through the eyes of the enemy-du-jour
Don't get me wrong. I don't assume a Pavlovian, peacenik position of generic opposition to all violence. In fact I loves me a good war, give me MORE MORE MORE!
But not this one. Not any so clearly based on fiction and backed by fear - petty wrath thinly veiled as Justice and Defense behind a semantic game of empty slogans.
If you feel like taking a break from the 24-hour 'psychological operations' being waged upon you via CNN, FOX, MSNBC, et al, you might try to catch a little of Qatar's Al-Jazeera network.
Check it - if you can. Many American ISP's block www.al-jazeera.net and you will need a satellite dish to catch the signal on your Trusty Television. [Update: try http://english.aljazeera.net, though it is strange that the main site seems to have been DOS'd into oblivian]
Read More to find out how to watch the Al-Jazeera
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Many are the comments and questions we have received asking what was the deal with that article?
It would seem somebody preceded us with some comments of their own. It will probably soon scroll off into oblivion from here:
http://laexaminer.com
[Note: Updates soon, we are on the move]
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I think this page is a perfect complement to our current running poll. Maybe they should put their paid team of investigative journalists who are actually in afghanstan on the matter before putting something up so hopelessly inane.
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