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Re: Interesting Arabic & European News Coverage (Non Triumph)

To: dave@microworks.net, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Interesting Arabic & European News Coverage (Non Triumph)
From: Group44TR7@aol.com
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:02:47 EST
In a message dated 12/16/2003 8:05:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
dave@microworks.net writes:

> At 05:13 PM 12/16/2003, Group44TR7@aol.com wrote:
> >    Those of you with Direct TV connections to non-censored European &
> >Middle Eastern news channels might find it interesting to watch their 
> >current...
> 
> Non-censored!? Give me a break. Every piece of news and information that 
> you see on the tube or hear on the radio is censored. It may not be by the 
> government but it is by a living breathing person called a reporter, 
> editor, producer, etc... They all (without exception) bring to the party 
> their own preconceived bias, knowledge and ignorance. If they did not they 
> would not be human.
> 
> 

Your absolutely right, many of the foreign broadcasts are subject to 
censorship by their countries, but some of them like the Arabic channel from 
Quatar is 
also being censored by the US in the english versions of their broadcasts. In 
fact that channel, which ironically plays alot of tapes from Bin Laden, is 
widely regarded as a US propaganda source in the middle east. They were the 
only 
channel not broadcasting the other version of the Sadddam capture and were 
being criticize by call in veiwers for not doing so.  

There is an hour long rebroadcast on Worldlink TV from Arabic News channels 
called "Mosiac". On our television, this is found in the 9800 series of public 
channels on Direct TV. We have two Direct TV channels, one that offers 
international channels that the other dish which is the one most commonly 
purchased 
with Speedvision does not. 

Cary

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