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Political and cultural considerations aside, Arab viewers have other reasons to trust these networks. They have often had more accurate information. U.S. networks and the BBC reported a revolt against Iraqi troops by Shi'ite Muslims in Basra last week, airing video of allied forces firing supportive artillery into the city. On Fox News, anchor Neil Cavuto crowed, "Don't look now, but the Shi'ites have hit the fan!" But al-Jazeera had a correspondent inside Basra, which appeared relatively orderly--quiet streets and groups chanting pro-Saddam slogans. Later the Western networks backpedaled. And for four days after...
...Afghanistan are heating up. In the past three weeks, two special - forces men were killed in an ambush, three Afghan soldiers had their throats slit at a lonely checkpoint, and an international aid worker was gunned down in Uruzgan province. A former top Taliban chief, Mullah Dadullah, told the BBC in a phone interview that the warrior clerics were coming out of hiding to renew their war against Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and the U.S.-led coalition backing him up. Dadullah claimed the clerics are taking orders directly from Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who has been in hiding...
...MSNBC, CNN, “The Today Show”, “The Early Show”, and “Nightline” on TV; on the radio, he was interviewed by Voice of America, BBC News, and Voice of Israel. He talked to the Times, the Associated Press, Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, Boston Metro and even squeezed in time for his hometown papers and “as many of the Muslim news sources as possible...
Marinelarena recommends the BBC and Reuters over...
...images dominating Arab and international TV coverage on Wednesday were those of more than 14 Iraqi civilians killed in Baghdad by what the BBC describes as two cruise missiles that struck a row of stores. That's precisely the sort of imagery Saddam Hussein wants to create by forcing the coalition into a battle for Baghdad. In their most optimistic scenarios, U.S. officials had imagined their forces being welcomed into Baghdad by cheering crowds, like those that had greeted the liberators of Paris in 1944. But Saddam may be nurturing a World War II image of his own - the brutal...