Posts Tagged ‘Media’
U.S. Imperialism “South of the Border”
Consortium News | By Lisa Pease | 17 July 2010 Oliver Stone Under Assault Again Oliver Stone is under attack again, which isn’t a surprise, given that no other filmmaker has been so willing to challenge the “conventional wisdom” in an effort to uncover the facts about important events. After seeing what the media did to Stone for his [...]
“This guy doesn’t get it, does he?” — Netanyahu, on Obama’s first criticism of Israel
The Independent | By Robert Fisk | 17 July 2010 They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason It is the season of grovelling. Only a week after CNN's Octavia Nasr and the British ambassador to Beirut, Frances Guy, dared to suggest that Sayyed Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon was a nice old chap rather than the super-terrorist the [...]
The price of truth in Anglo-America
Jordan Times | By Rami G. Khouri | 16 July 2010 Two fascinating yet troubling incidents took place in the past week related to American and British public figures - a British ambassador and an American journalist - who had their fingers burned for acknowledging the deep respect that the late Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, the Lebanese [...]
Condolence Tweet Costs Nasr Her CNN Job
PressTV | 8 July 2010 Tweet costs CNN employee her job CNN has fired its senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs after she published a Twitter message praising the late Lebanese Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. Octavia Nasr has been told to leave the US television news network after praising the Lebanese cleric who [...]
