Comments on: Zaki Chehab http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:04:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Holding the line | Antony Loewenstein http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-816 Holding the line | Antony Loewenstein Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:19:20 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-816 [...] The vast majority of Western journalists roam Iraq - Baghdad hotel rooms, mostly - with contracted security agents. The idea of journalists themselves carrying weapons may be an understandable desire, but surely unwise. Reporters are not combatants and while the media has been targeted in Iraq unlike any conflict before - the US and insurgents carry responsibility for this - journalists must not become simply an extension of the armed forces. Sometimes, though, it’s hard to know the difference. The most dangerous reporting in Iraq is now done almost solely by Iraqi and Arab journalists. Western news organisations have established an almost colonial arrangement with local news groups and reporters. It may well be highly dangerous to discover the true reality of life under US occupation, but Western audiences should be made aware who is truly taking the major risks. 0 comments [...] [...] The vast majority of Western journalists roam Iraq - Baghdad hotel rooms, mostly - with contracted security agents. The idea of journalists themselves carrying weapons may be an understandable desire, but surely unwise. Reporters are not combatants and while the media has been targeted in Iraq unlike any conflict before - the US and insurgents carry responsibility for this - journalists must not become simply an extension of the armed forces. Sometimes, though, it’s hard to know the difference. The most dangerous reporting in Iraq is now done almost solely by Iraqi and Arab journalists. Western news organisations have established an almost colonial arrangement with local news groups and reporters. It may well be highly dangerous to discover the true reality of life under US occupation, but Western audiences should be made aware who is truly taking the major risks. 0 comments [...]

]]> By: smiths http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-517 smiths Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:40:22 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-517 doesnt anyone ever bother coming to perth, its not that far you lazy sods doesnt anyone ever bother coming to perth, its not that far you lazy sods

]]> By: Antony Loewenstein http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-516 Antony Loewenstein Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:38:31 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-516 Melbourne, Friday 24th February RMIT Public Lecture, 7:00pm. Storey Hall, RMIT, Swanston Street. Tickets from NIBS 9662 3744 or Readings Melbourne, Friday 24th February
RMIT

Public Lecture, 7:00pm. Storey Hall, RMIT, Swanston Street.
Tickets from NIBS 9662 3744 or Readings

]]> By: smiths http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-512 smiths Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:21:21 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-512 any info on the speaking tour, places, date? any info on the speaking tour, places, date?

]]> By: Addamo http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-496 Addamo Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:45:44 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-496 There is also an outstading interview with Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Mansur and his cameraman Laith Mushtaq, who were inside Fallujah. The US sated that the conditinos for a ceasefire in Fallujah at the time were that Ahmed Mansur would have to leave Iraq. What he had to say about Fallujah is sickening. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12027.htm There is also an outstading interview with Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Mansur and his cameraman Laith Mushtaq, who were inside Fallujah. The US sated that the conditinos for a ceasefire in Fallujah at the time were that Ahmed Mansur would have to leave Iraq.

What he had to say about Fallujah is sickening.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12027.htm

]]> By: Addamo http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-490 Addamo Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:08:14 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-490 And indeed what an immense crime the whole Iraq invasion really was. And indeed what an immense crime the whole Iraq invasion really was.

]]> By: Antony Loewenstein http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-488 Antony Loewenstein Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:27:03 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-488 Thanks. Listening to him and reading his work reminds one, yet again, how ignorant Westerners are about the Middle East, the US role in the region and the Iraqi chaos. Thanks.
Listening to him and reading his work reminds one, yet again, how ignorant Westerners are about the Middle East, the US role in the region and the Iraqi chaos.

]]> By: Addamo http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-487 Addamo Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:21:44 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/02/24/zaki-chehab/#comment-487 Thansk for th esource Ant, It's wonderful to get the perspective of a good hard core reliable source from an Iraqi onteh ground. His damnning indictment of the western media is very poignant. Thansk for th esource Ant,

It’s wonderful to get the perspective of a good hard core reliable source from an Iraqi onteh ground. His damnning indictment of the western media is very poignant.

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