leftchick (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 03:54 PM
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Al Jazeera Breaks the Israeli Media Blockade
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4778183
Source: New America Media
New America Media, News Report, Shane Bauer, Posted: Jan 06, 2009 Review it on NewsTrust
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Throughout the 11 days of Israel's pummeling of Gaza, live coverage of the war hasn't made it into most American living rooms.
That's because Israel, America's staunch ally, isn't allowing journalists to enter Gaza while Al Jazeera, called anti-American and pro-terrorist by many in Washington, is the only network broadcasting live images from Gaza to the world.
The 350 reporters who descended on Israel when the conflict began are stuck at the border between Israel and Gaza. Israel says that opening border crossings to journalists would put their soldiers in danger, but many have accused them of trying to control the story. Instead of giving their viewers up-close pictorial evidence of what is occurring in Gaza, television networks have been restricted to showing their viewers plumes of smoke as they rise in the distance.
But Al Jazeera, the Qatari network that has previously undergone attacks and had its reporters arrested by the U.S. military, remains typically defiant. While other networks are increasingly severed from Gaza as phone lines are cut and 75 percent of the territory is without electricity, Al Jazeera is bringing its approximately 140 million English- and Arabic-speaking viewers live images of bombings, tanks rolling through Gaza's farmland, and interviews with civilians and aid workers inside Gaza city.
Read more: http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?...
Syria...the ones who supplied Hamas.
halo experiment (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 03:56 PM
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1. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the US media is censored to the truth
The government won't have a repeat of Vietnam.
Stupid DUmmie. The Israelis are the ones...oh, wait. You retards think Israel is a puppet state of Neocon.
halo experiment (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 04:10 PM
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3. The corporatists have taken this planet over and it must be stopped.
"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
halo is working for DUmmie of the year, 2009.
halo experiment (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 04:39 PM
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6. I dont understand why they claim their soldiers are the reason
When they have barred journalists from Gaza for months before this. The Israeli Supreme Court even had to rule on it, saying it was a violation and that Israel must allow them in. Israel then said they would allow I believe a pool of 12 in, but has yet to do so, and now they have a fresh excuse of "the soliders."
My question: Why were they not allowed in before this happened? Why did their courts have to even rule on it? What are they hiding?
halo is really gator's sock-puppet.
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