[War and politics] Re: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 13:26:38 MDT

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    Damien Sullivan wrote:

    >>anyway. It really is a change to see people saying that we have to trust
    >>big government and that it wouldn't lie to us...
    >
    > Yah. Whatever happened to believing that politicians seek to
    increase their
    > power by whatever means? -xx- Damien X-)

    Far more than in the past, the current Arab conflict is
    an information war. Politicians are not so much struggling
    with each other as news media are struggling with each other.
    The most dramatic losers so far: Minister of Information [sic]
    Muhammad Said al Sahhaf, who will be quoted for comic relief
    for the foreseeable future, pretty much all of the Arab press
    whose credibility will take years to recover, and CNN.

    Winners: FoxNews, who got it pretty much right.

    This war isn't about politicians or governments so much as
    it is about information pipes.

    spike

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