In a message dated 12/16/2003 8:05:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,
dave@microworks.net writes:
> At 05:13 PM 12/16/2003, Group44TR7@aol.com wrote:
> > Those of you with Direct TV connections to non-censored European &
> >Middle Eastern news channels might find it interesting to watch their
> >current...
>
> Non-censored!? Give me a break. Every piece of news and information that
> you see on the tube or hear on the radio is censored. It may not be by the
> government but it is by a living breathing person called a reporter,
> editor, producer, etc... They all (without exception) bring to the party
> their own preconceived bias, knowledge and ignorance. If they did not they
> would not be human.
>
>
Your absolutely right, many of the foreign broadcasts are subject to
censorship by their countries, but some of them like the Arabic channel from
Quatar is
also being censored by the US in the english versions of their broadcasts. In
fact that channel, which ironically plays alot of tapes from Bin Laden, is
widely regarded as a US propaganda source in the middle east. They were the
only
channel not broadcasting the other version of the Sadddam capture and were
being criticize by call in veiwers for not doing so.
There is an hour long rebroadcast on Worldlink TV from Arabic News channels
called "Mosiac". On our television, this is found in the 9800 series of public
channels on Direct TV. We have two Direct TV channels, one that offers
international channels that the other dish which is the one most commonly
purchased
with Speedvision does not.
Cary
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