Reportage of the Iraqi conflict in the USA

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Lib - you’re becoming an old woman :smiley:

AZCowboy – Just to confirm the hacking story

Also (general):

On censorship:

“The channel has also been at the centre of the controversy surrounding the broadcasting of footage of Iraqi and American casualties that many western news organisations considered too shocking to screen.
One image shown repeatedly on Sunday showed the head of a child aged about 12 that had been split apart, reportedly in the US-led assault on Basra.
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In the UK, where 87% of Arabic-speaking households have access to al-Jazeera, it is available on BSkyB’s family package of channels, although it is also possible to pick up the French signal via satellite.
An English-language version of al-Jazeera is planned and could launch by the end of this year.”
Plus:

A quote from jjimm link re Al-Jazeera’s anti-censorship award

“Al-Jazeera, the Arab TV satellite channel whose war coverage has angered the US, has been awarded a prestigious prize for upholding freedom of expression.
The Qatar-based channel won the award for the best circumvention of censorship at Index on Censorship’s third annual Freedom of Expression Awards last night.”

  • and it would be an outlandish thing to suggest I get any pleasure at imaging december reading this. An absolute outrage, I tell you …

Also (fwiw), it looks like the days of western media dominating the media and agenda are well and truly over. Arabs / Muslims seems to have quite a selection of options available – I rather like the Lebanese one with the dishevelled presenters ….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2889441.stm

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Lib, I still think you misinterpreted what Jjimm was saying about Sky.

Its not the graphics they are using when strategy is being discussed with an expert or a commentator, its the filler in between reports and makes it look like an advert for a new War Simulation game for the PC.

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Thanks for clarifying that, Twisty (my feelings entirely).

The Sky News troop movement reports are actually very good, showing a map that the analysts can drop flat graphics, arrows, etc. onto with a digital pen.

But the other stuff… gaah.

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The Boston Globe ran a front-page story yesterday on the difference between US coverage and Middle Eastern coverage of the war. There was even a picture of a wounded child on the article.

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Last night on SBS late news there was a segment on the differences in reporting between Aljazeera, BBC and a USA broadcaster (CNN i think).

The story contracted differences in footage between the three of the missile blast in the Baghdad market-place. Aljazeera showed pools of blood, bodies with limbs missing and people with horrific injuries. BBC implied the carnage, showing bodies from a distance. CNN? showed holes in the ground.

Aljazeera is very full-on, but so is war. It is good that a range of broadcast styles exists. Personally I would prefer a middle ground - not to much reality (Aljazeera) and not too much ‘video-game’ (CNN).