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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 05:09 PM
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Rumsfeld Pushes U.S.-Backed Satellite TV in Iraq
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031121/wl_nm/iraq_usa_television_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his top military officer said on Friday satellite TV programing being developed by the U.S.-led authority in Iraq was needed to compete with what they called hostile coverage by two leading Arab news channels.

"At the present time, two of the most popular stations, Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera, are, you know, just violently anti-coalition, and were pro-Saddam Hussein in the case of Al Jazeera in such an obvious way," Rumsfeld said during a town hall meeting at the Pentagon.

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added that "the issue of communicating internally to the Iraqi people is an issue that we've been struggling with now for some time."

Myers said the Coalition Provisional Authority, headed by Paul Bremer, is "standing up quality programing that we hope will attract average the Iraqi citizen's attention to what's going on in their own country, and that will compete with Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya and other stations."

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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 05:12 PM
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1. Give Em "Iraq Idol"
and some other mind numbing Murikan TV programs, starting with MSNBC, FOX and sadly CNN.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 05:26 PM
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2. Actually, that's how the Busheviks turned Amerika into an Empire
Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 05:26 PM by tom_paine
By seizing the all the megaphones of the media, then drowing out the voices of reason with the lying trumpet blasts of The Mighty Wurlitzer.

You know that movie "The Matrix"? That was an idea who's time has come because now we are surrounded by an Orwellian lying reality.

But I don't think the Iraqis are as susceptible as the Imperial Subjects of Amerika. Saddam did that same thing to them, although without the "production values" and the sophisticated marketing tachniques.

You see, one thing that allows the Party-Loyal Right-Wing Sub-Media and Corporate TV Pravda to so successfully lie to us is that we, born during the Days of the Old Republic, cannot conceive that our media could be turned by an unscrupulous few into a BIG LIE MACHINE.

It is an old adage of advertising and psychology that the person most difficult to psychomanipulate are the people who are aware they are being manipulated.

Well, like the Soviet citizens of the 1980s and the Iraqis, they were BORN pretty much knowing they were being manipulated and lied to by the Powers that Be.

The imperial Amerikan Subjects, of course, will have to learn the hard way like the Soviets, Iraqis and Filips (under Marcos) learned.

But for that reason, Iraqis just won't buy what Rummy is selling, even if he hires a few Arabic O'Reichleys to put some brown faces up there for them.

But, given their successes over the Imperial Subjects of Amerika with their BIG LIE MACHINE, I can certainly understand their hoping they can replicate that success in Iraq.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 05:35 PM
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3. NEW FALL IRAQ TV LINEUP
Monday 8-9pm Baghdad Hillbillies
9-10pm M*A*S*H (Mobil always running Saddam Hussein)
10-11pm Wild Wild Western Civilization
11-12am Mohammed Leno




Tuesday Morning 8-11am Good Morning Iraq
11-12n One day to live
12-1pm Local News
1-2pm Sands thru the hourglass (Soap Opera)
2-3pm As the World invades
3-4pm The Young and the Limbless
4-5pm Geraldo Live
5-6pm Evening news with Albert Jazeera
6-7pm You are in JEOPARDY
7-8PM Arab Life Today
8-9pm Outlaw and Order
9-10pm TSI Terrorist Scene Investigation
10-11pm Outlaw and Order BVU Bombed Victims Unit

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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 05:41 PM
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4. I'm willing to bet dollars to doughnuts
That this idea gets outsourced to Rupert Murdoch and Fox. I'll even go further and say it will be awarded in a no bid contract.

Takers?
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mbperrin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 06:31 PM
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6. Nah, you're just wanting to take my money..
give me a sporting chance and let's bet on whether the sun comes up tomorrow!!
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 06:31 PM
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5. This totally astounds me!
The Iraqi people have not bought into their previous propoganda, why does that idiot think they will with this? They will never learn that the Iraqi people are well aware of any and all techniques of this kind, they lived under Saddam which Rumsfeld and all the idiots proposing this seem to forget.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:08 PM
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7. I guess they can expect a Faux/Rupert network in the area. n/t
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BlackFrancis Donating Member (243 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-21-03 07:14 PM
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8. like they are going to watch that crap
Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 07:14 PM by BlackFrancis
This is perfectly good money pissed away. The Iraqi's will continue to get their news from Al-Jazeera, no one is going to be impressed with the American propaganda outlet.
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