Tuesday, March 08, 2005
The Greatest Story You'll Never Read in Europe
"Always trust an Italian Communist - Never trust American Aggressors"
In Europe the focus is on Giuliana Sgrena, their viewpoints mirrored in CBS's Way of formulating the episode: "Italian journalist [...] disputes that troops gave her convoy a warning to stop at a checkpoint". The culpability is obviously on the U.S. troops. Sgrenas credibility seems to be taken for granted, on CBS as in the morning news broadcasts I watched earlier.
Another story, vividly reported in Europe, that supposedly has "shocked" Americans - a new torture scandal (the evidences in the story are to a large extent circumstantial, no real torture is in fact reported, and even the NY Times didn't spend too much time on it, instead letting Reuters do the footwork: Ramadi Madness. CBS, btw, is too much focused on glorifying Rather to even play the story at all...)
Why Bush was right all along
This about mayhem and horror. Are there any good news from the Middle East? Yes, but with the exception of two UK papers, Europe is not reporting. Here is one of them - The Independent: Was Bush right after all?
In the Washington Post, they are obviously impressed with Bush's strong stand about policies and committment in the Middle East. Even the critics on the editorial staff of the NY Times open up for some good remarks ('Mideast Climate Changes') for Bush:
In The Times, Gerald Baker is spinning a theme that I am currently working on myself for a Swedish news sight: "What have the Americans ever done for us? Liberated 50 million people..."
Time Magazine's Michael Duffy writes about the historical impact of the Bush administration and the possible Bush legacy in the Mideast: When History Turns A Corner.
From an Arabic point of view, Fareed Zakaria writes in Newsweek about What Bush Got Right
(and, hence, "What Europe Left Out" (the modus operandi here is “Left”)). The resiliance and the U.S. effort has in fact proven itself to be successful, and a large part of this success is because of policy positionings - not to believe in the Palestinian-pan-arabic propaganda – because there is no such aliance, other than as a marketing device for terrorist. And no, no European post-modernist discourse analyst will ever try to "deconstruct" such a Palestinian scheme.
Yes, it is great when news organisations can report about bad intelligence gathering (torture and activities that are otherwise violating the Geneva convention). But ... as always... it is fascinating to see which stories are being reported. And who is the most credible news source.
In Europe the focus is on Giuliana Sgrena, their viewpoints mirrored in CBS's Way of formulating the episode: "Italian journalist [...] disputes that troops gave her convoy a warning to stop at a checkpoint". The culpability is obviously on the U.S. troops. Sgrenas credibility seems to be taken for granted, on CBS as in the morning news broadcasts I watched earlier.
Another story, vividly reported in Europe, that supposedly has "shocked" Americans - a new torture scandal (the evidences in the story are to a large extent circumstantial, no real torture is in fact reported, and even the NY Times didn't spend too much time on it, instead letting Reuters do the footwork: Ramadi Madness. CBS, btw, is too much focused on glorifying Rather to even play the story at all...)
Why Bush was right all along
This about mayhem and horror. Are there any good news from the Middle East? Yes, but with the exception of two UK papers, Europe is not reporting. Here is one of them - The Independent: Was Bush right after all?
In the Washington Post, they are obviously impressed with Bush's strong stand about policies and committment in the Middle East. Even the critics on the editorial staff of the NY Times open up for some good remarks ('Mideast Climate Changes') for Bush:
“The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for
many of these advances.”
In The Times, Gerald Baker is spinning a theme that I am currently working on myself for a Swedish news sight: "What have the Americans ever done for us? Liberated 50 million people..."
Time Magazine's Michael Duffy writes about the historical impact of the Bush administration and the possible Bush legacy in the Mideast: When History Turns A Corner.
From an Arabic point of view, Fareed Zakaria writes in Newsweek about What Bush Got Right
(and, hence, "What Europe Left Out" (the modus operandi here is “Left”)). The resiliance and the U.S. effort has in fact proven itself to be successful, and a large part of this success is because of policy positionings - not to believe in the Palestinian-pan-arabic propaganda – because there is no such aliance, other than as a marketing device for terrorist. And no, no European post-modernist discourse analyst will ever try to "deconstruct" such a Palestinian scheme.
Yes, it is great when news organisations can report about bad intelligence gathering (torture and activities that are otherwise violating the Geneva convention). But ... as always... it is fascinating to see which stories are being reported. And who is the most credible news source.
