Word: anti-american
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...Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantánamo Bay.” Such negligence on Newsweek’s part is undoubtedly regrettable and unacceptable. However, to fault the publication for spreading anti-American sentiment with its false claims of unseemly behavior towards those held incommunicado is ludicrous...
...Anti-American sentiment has been increasing in scope and intensity for years, exacerbated by the current administration’s cowboy diplomacy, zealous hegemony, and use of questionable interrogation tactics as we wage the “war on terror”—tactics that make the Koran desecration seem unremarkable. The Newsweek article might have been a catalyst for the recent flare of riots and violence. But for the Bush administration to use this mainstream magazine as a scapegoat for our shameful image abroad is ridiculous...
Journalists strive to beinfluential. But there can't be many who would hope to affect events the way Newsweek has in Afghanistan. The anti-American street protests that erupted there earlier this month--after the magazine reported that a Pentagon investigation would support claims that guards at the U.S. detention center at Guantnamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet--left as many as 17 dead and scores injured...
...easy, not the least because of al-Jazeera's reputation in the West for having an anti-American, pro-Arab bias. The network may have money to expand without worrying too much about revenue from potentially skittish advertisers: Qatar's Emir underwrites roughly 60% of the government-owned network's estimated $85 million annual budget. But whether the English channel will be able to wrest spots on U.S. cable networks or persuade satellite services to run its programming, not to mention grab an audience, is unclear. Even Arab Americans tend to watch other cable news stations, like Fox News...
...California opened the discussion, Parsons recalls, by declaring, "You're the channel that hates freedom and loves terrorism." Another conservative whom Parsons visited was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. According to Parsons, she expressed concern that his channel would pander to anti-American sentiments. "She was skeptical in the beginning, but at the end she was friendly," he says. "She seemed prepared to judge us on our merits...