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Originally posted by roachboy
personally, i find it to be consistently interesting--and i appluad the fact that their coverage is willing to show to human costs of bush's war--civilian casualties in particular by publishing photos for example---which i assume underpins the charge from american conservatives that al-jazeera is "antiamerican"--which raises a host of problems about this (empty) notion of "anti-american" in all its aspects.
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I definitely agree with that. While al-jazeera isnt exactly waving an american flag, they do seem to try to present both sides. Its good that someone out there is willing to show the effect of war. Like any news station, there are biases, but the idea that al-jazeera is unamerican simply because they are willing to show the other side of the war is ridiculous.
As for blocking them for 30 days, I dont know enough about why they did it to really comment. If they really were being overly propagandistic, thats one thing. If this is an attempt by the White House to stifle differing opinions in Iraq, thats another thing altogether.