Thread: How we see war
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Old 01-19-2009, 09:20 AM
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Re: How we see war
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Originally Posted by chuck View Post
In a way, that's the paradox of Al-Jazeera's war journalism: It is flagrantly political, but accompanied by a real curiosity about other perspectives. It also makes me wish for something else: A TV network with the bravery to show the war imagery you can see on Al-Jazeera, but the integrity to do it in the service of peace, rather than the service of a side. Its violent imagery, however unpleasant, would be a strong stand for the individual against violence, and for human compassion against easily fanned hatreds."
This article kind of bugs me, sorry. WIth the above paragraph and statements like this...

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all its gruesome cruelty. It is openly partisan, almost never showing Israeli deaths or injuries.
what israeli deaths and injuries? 14 people israelis have died last time I looked it up. 10 were soldiers 4 of whom died of friendly fire.

and the "paradox" of Al-Jazeera's war journalism is really that it is secularly intellectual *and* from the middle east. I mean that's what he wants to say. Instead its this patronizing tone of "oh look they're being objective *AND* positional." That, and its jarring to watch the process of journalistic dialog from the enemy. a source that was demonized by Rumsfeld early on for its "ambulance chasing" journalism in the iraq war, eventually calling them terrorists themselves and bombing their baghdad headquarters.

I mean if we want to call out the obvious differences between just recording the carnage versus what CNN does that's fine. I'm personally tired of watching anderson cooper in Isaac Mizrahi designed black turtle necks blathering israeli talking points while graphics from last year's super bowl is lifted off and run like a summer blockbuster.
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