Re: WAR: Apparently the internet does NOT see censorship as damage and route

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 05:50:48 MST

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    http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0325/p01s04-woiq.html

    World and America watching different wars
    CNN vs. Al Jazeera: Seeing is often believing

    By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

    [excerpt]
    "In fact, American audiences are seeing and reading about a different
    war than the rest of the world. The news coverage in Europe, the
    Middle East, and Asia, reflects and defines the widening perception
    gap about the motives for this war. Surveys show that an increasing
    number of Americans believe this is a just war, while most of the
    world's Arabs and Muslims see it as a war of aggression. Media
    coverage does not necessarily create these leanings, say analysts,
    but it works to cement them.

    "The difference in coverage between the US and the rest of the world
    helped contribute to the situation that we're in now,'' says Kim
    Spencer, president of WorldLink TV, a US satellite channel devoted
    to airing foreign news. "Americans have been unable to see how
    they're perceived."

    For example, most Americans, watching CNN, Fox, or the US television
    networks, are not seeing as much coverage of injured Iraqi citizens,
    or being given more than a glimpse of the antiwar protests now
    raging in the Muslim world and beyond.

    In the Middle East, Europe, and parts of Asia, by comparison, the
    rapid progress made by US led troops has been played down. And many
    aspects of the conflict being highlighted in the US - such as the
    large number of Iraqi troops surrendering, the cooperation between
    US-led forces and various Gulf states, commentary on America's
    superior weapons technology, and the human interest angles on
    soldier life in the desert - are almost totally absent from coverage
    outside the US.

    "Sure, the news we get in the Arab world is slanted," admits Hussein
    Amin, chair of the department of journalism and mass communication
    at Cairo's American University. "In the same way the news received
    in the US is biased."" 

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