Its funny how I was complaining how bias CNN was covering the war in Lebanon before I came back to Kuwait. After watching last night’s coverage of the “massacre” I remembered how Arab media covers a lot of different incidents.
Suicide bombers in Iraq regularly target and kill 50+ people, no massacre there. I don’t remember anyone calling the 9/11 attacks a massacre even though a lot more people were killed. I have nothing against Lebanon, they dont deserve whats appening to them, and I am only putting the blame on the media.
On anther note…
I had this weird dream last night, its weird not only because what I dreamed about, but that I actually remembered. I dreamt that Israelis were fed up with they way they were living, eventually they all decided to leave and give back the land they hijacked. No more Israel. That wasn’t the point of the dream. The Arab countries went to war with each other over what land they were going to get. Palestine ended up with nothing, the Gulf countries and a couple of the “strong” Arab countries got some coastal land (vacation spots) and the rest was divided for who ever won their respective battles. So, according to my dream, Israel vanishing from the map is not the solution here, it created even more troubles in the Middle East.
WOW!! That’s not a good dream.. But what a coincidence cuz I just put up a post about a dream that I had a few years ago.
But what you said is true.. The media is biased..
I think it’s obvious by now.. Where ever you go the media will always have a at the bare minimum, a slight biased view on some issues!
We just have to learn to overlook the bias and get the facts that we need from the media without being influenced by their views..
We just need the facts!
that is a dream for the record. you should write a political article inspried by this dream, some what like fahme hwaidi vision (except its an anti-fahmi) more like a tomas freedman vision.
i watched CNN, BBC, yesterday along with all the arab channels. for the first time in 19 days CNN is using words against israel in a verbal sense. the footage and the coverage was indicative of a serious mistake, for at least 5 minutes, an israeli spokeswoman kept saying: deeply deeply deeply deeply deeply deeply … sorry.
although i noticed CNN said: dozens, to refer to 57, or said: over 50. and used the early numbers (10 or so) to refer to the number of dead childrens found in stead of the latest figure at its hour obtained… that was like: biased but it’s bull’s eye of israeli fault.
BBC … i saw ‘have your say’ i’m gonna look up the name of the anchor soon, but i want to tell you how intelligent he is!!!! he changes his language difficulty and speed levels according to the speakers: viewers… amazing!! very articulate with articulate people, very slow and to the point with weak english people. then there was this woman named layla diab, i wish u heard her, she was 79 years old. from switzerland, he was so impressed/ moved by how the woman spoke of her tragedy (lost her mom in the first leb war) and how she keeps asking if she needs to lose another relative.. and she pointed out things arabs never say in clarity.. cz all what arabs say is poetry (check the lebanese UN embassador in UN yesterday). she said hizbulla never existed before israel, and she is sick and tired of the word terror ever since bush used it to describe, all arabs are terrorist.. she said so many amazing stuff, symbolic, offered her say.. if u find a transcript of it on bbc site, go read it.
on a final note to this long comment, bush said yesterday: my sympatheis go out to the people who lost their lives” …. sympatheis to people who lost their lives!!!????? shlon .. ya3ni yg3idon min elmout they accept your sympathies and die!!!!??? u moron to their families!!!
how do you expect people to look at americans if their representative is so donkey IQ.
MvYv,
great minds think alike
vintage,
interesting insight,
the next few days in the war should be interesting, media-wise and for other reasons
i’ll try to get an article out of my dream, since this war really changed a lot of views in the arab world, it created more problems in their usual “united” stand against everything israel related
on bush, what do u expect from a guy who has a donkey as his party’s mascot