This Is Freedom?
Apparently in Iraq, the media has no freedom.
The Iraqi government Monday ordered the closure of the Baghdad office of a Dubai-based television station whose newscaster wore black mourning clothes while reporting on the hanging of Hussein.
Ooh, God forbid someone thinks differently than the puppet government of Iraq. God forbid someone chooses to exercise their right to express how they feel. Isn't that what freedom is all about? Shouldn't people have the right to express how they feel, regardless of whether or not anyone agrees with them?
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the Al-Sharqiya station, owned by a former chief of radio and television for Saddam, had incited violence and hatred in its coverage and had ignored warnings to stop.
Brigadier Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the spokesman, said the order was issued after an allegedly false report by the news channel about the abduction of three Sunni Arab female students from a university.
But the order also followed criticism of the tone of Al-Sharqiya's coverage of Saturday's execution, which struck some as sympathetic to the ousted dictator.
Apparently they don't watch American news channels. There is false and misleading reporting going on all the time. The right-wing whacks would have you believe that the media here is "liberal" but it's not. Perhaps the puppet government of Iraq should turn on some of the news channels here, especially one in particular. They'll get a lesson real fast on watching garbage news!!
The government did not specifically cite the controversy over Al-Sharqiya's coverage of Saddam's execution in explaining the closure.
"We had sent many warnings to the channel previously, but it insisted on circulating false news that provoked violence and hatred," said Khalaf, the interior ministry spokesman.
BULLSHIT!! I always love when people who are pissed that others don't tow the line say that media coverage has provoked violence and incited hatred. Prove it!! Unless the government can prove that something that was broadcast from this station did anything of the sort, they're the damn liars!!
What's the matter? Did they make the puppets look bad? Didn't they put out the same propaganda bullshit that the U.S. put out on their propaganda television network that they set up in Iraq? Oh, too bad!!
This is freedom? If this is freedom, the puppets can shove it!!
The Iraqi government Monday ordered the closure of the Baghdad office of a Dubai-based television station whose newscaster wore black mourning clothes while reporting on the hanging of Hussein.
Ooh, God forbid someone thinks differently than the puppet government of Iraq. God forbid someone chooses to exercise their right to express how they feel. Isn't that what freedom is all about? Shouldn't people have the right to express how they feel, regardless of whether or not anyone agrees with them?
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the Al-Sharqiya station, owned by a former chief of radio and television for Saddam, had incited violence and hatred in its coverage and had ignored warnings to stop.
Brigadier Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the spokesman, said the order was issued after an allegedly false report by the news channel about the abduction of three Sunni Arab female students from a university.
But the order also followed criticism of the tone of Al-Sharqiya's coverage of Saturday's execution, which struck some as sympathetic to the ousted dictator.
Apparently they don't watch American news channels. There is false and misleading reporting going on all the time. The right-wing whacks would have you believe that the media here is "liberal" but it's not. Perhaps the puppet government of Iraq should turn on some of the news channels here, especially one in particular. They'll get a lesson real fast on watching garbage news!!
The government did not specifically cite the controversy over Al-Sharqiya's coverage of Saddam's execution in explaining the closure.
"We had sent many warnings to the channel previously, but it insisted on circulating false news that provoked violence and hatred," said Khalaf, the interior ministry spokesman.
BULLSHIT!! I always love when people who are pissed that others don't tow the line say that media coverage has provoked violence and incited hatred. Prove it!! Unless the government can prove that something that was broadcast from this station did anything of the sort, they're the damn liars!!
What's the matter? Did they make the puppets look bad? Didn't they put out the same propaganda bullshit that the U.S. put out on their propaganda television network that they set up in Iraq? Oh, too bad!!
This is freedom? If this is freedom, the puppets can shove it!!
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