Alhurra, President Bush's attempt at an Arabic propaganda news network is failing miserably. (Shame we can't say the same for his American one.) See last night's 60 Minutes report below:
Americans have paid over $500 million for Alhurra and its radio counterpart, Sawa - only to have it referred to as the "Cheney Channel" and get its rear consistently kicked by the much, much more popular Al-Jazeera.
And as a propaganda network, Alhurra sure does a crappy job:
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Americans have paid over $500 million for Alhurra and its radio counterpart, Sawa - only to have it referred to as the "Cheney Channel" and get its rear consistently kicked by the much, much more popular Al-Jazeera.
And as a propaganda network, Alhurra sure does a crappy job:
...an examination of the network’s practices revealed that American supervisors aren’t monitoring closely and that their Arabic assistants sample just a tiny fraction of the broadcasting aired each day.
When Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah railed against the U.S. government and threatened Israel, Alhurra carried it live and unedited. When U.S. combat deaths in Iraq surpassed 4,000 in March, Radio Sawa interviewed an anonymous militant who told listeners: “Occupation is occupation. We need to resist them and kill more than 4,000.” In March, Alhurra aired a documentary on the “The Crusades” -- a series of military campaigns that Christian Europe waged against the Muslim world during the Middle Ages. Muslim staffers saw the program as an unfortunate reprise of Bush’s 2001 comment that the coming “war on terrorism,” would be a “crusade.”
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