From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 04:31:49 MDT
(Sorry for the wrong date on the computer clock. I'm still trying to
straighten out a 6 month old temporary office and computer mess.)
Regarding Herold's counting method of Afghan civilian deaths:
>This strange assumption leads Herold to treat reports in the (UK)
>Guardian as being on par with reports from The Frontier Post of
>Peshawar. He cites, for example, an eyewitness account of the
>bombing of a commercial truck reported in Albalagh. This, it turns
>out, is an 'Islamic E-Journal,' whose motto is 'Our Duty is to
>Deliver Only the Message' (the message of Mohammed). Among the texts
>featured on its web page of 10 January 2002 are an article entitled
>'Islam is the Solution,' and an essay on 'Religious Toleration'
>defending the destruction of Buddhist temples by Islamic
>fundamentalists. Hardly an unimpeachable media source.
For this situation, the Iraqi War, the media sources they
('Iraqbodycount') use are:
ABC - ABC News (USA)
AFP - Agence France-Presse
AP - Associated Press
AWST - Aviation Week and Space Technology
Al Jaz - Al Jazeera network
BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
BG - Boston Globe
Balt. Sun - The Baltimore Sun
CT - Chicago Tribune
CO - Commondreams.org
CSM - Christian Science Monitor
DPA - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
FOX - Fox News
GUA - The Guardian (London)
HRW - Human Rights Watch
HT - Hindustan Times
ICRC - International Committ of the Red Cross
IND - The Independent (London)
IO - Intellnet.org
JT - Jordan Times
LAT - Los Angeles Times
MEN - Middle East Newsline
MEO - Middle East Online
MER - Middle East Report
MH - Miami Herald
NT - Nando Times
NYT - New York Times
Reuters - (includes Reuters Alertnet)
SABC - South African Broadcasting Corporation
SMH - Sydney Morning Herald
Sg.News - The Singapore News
Tel- The Telegraph (London)
Times - The Times (London)
TOI - Times of India
TS - Toronto Star
UPI - United Press International
WNN - World News Network
WP - Washington Post
So in this respect, it boils down to who you think are
credible news sources. I would not consider FoxNews as
credible and unbiased or Al Jazeera and the Middle East
news sources either.
There appears to be a wide mix here though. As I've said
many times in the past, one cannot gain a balanced news
perspective without reading different sources and that is
especially pertinent to such a politically charged event
as the Iraq War.
Amara
-- ******************************************************************** Amara Graps, PhD email: amara@amara.com Computational Physics vita: ftp://ftp.amara.com/pub/resume.txt Multiplex Answers URL: http://www.amara.com/ ******************************************************************** "It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end." --Calvin
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri May 09 2003 - 04:43:07 MDT