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U.S. Uses Iraqi TV to Send Its Message (US to broadcast fox news in Iraq)
Washington Post ^
| riday, April 11, 2003
| Mike Allen
Posted on 04/11/2003 1:22:24 PM PDT by GeoPie
The Bush administration took over Iraqi state television yesterday, replacing tributes to Saddam Hussein with conciliatory greetings from President Bush, the Pentagon and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The shows were beamed onto Baghdad's Channel 3, one of the deposed government's frequencies. The Pentagon-controlled programming is part of a multimedia campaign to persuade Iraqis -- sometimes by using the abandoned infrastructure of Hussein's propaganda networks -- that their country is being liberated, not occupied, and that self-government and free enterprise are on the way.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5428-2003Apr10.html
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blair; bush; foxnews; interimauthority; iraq; iraqtv; newfoxaffiliate; warlist
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:22:24 PM PDT
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GeoPie
To: GeoPie
I don't post often (I lurk everyday). I checked and did not see it already posted...please pull it if it was previously posted.
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:25:02 PM PDT
by
GeoPie
To: All
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:26:48 PM PDT
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To: GeoPie
I do like that Iraq will be getting Brit Hume's news hour. However, some Iraqis may want to beat up Juan Williams.
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:27:10 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
Williams! Ha. Try that skull faced Alan Kones!
To: GeoPie
CNN declined to have its newscasts included. "As an independent, global news organization, we did not think it was appropriate to participate in a U.S. government transmission," spokeswoman Christa Robinson said.Christa Robinson is lying. CNN has no trouble with its shows being on Armed Forces Radio and TV. CNN simply has a problem with being associated with George W. Bush.
Eason Jordan is saddened, very saddened.
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:29:23 PM PDT
by
Timesink
To: Dog Gone
Or, for that matter, Geraldo Rivera.
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:29:37 PM PDT
by
GOP_Raider
(OAKLAND RAIDERS AFC CHAMPIONS!!!!)
To: Kurdistani
Bagdad Bob and G-raldo will have a show together! Late Night RagBag! Live from the Tigris.
To: GeoPie
CNN declined to have its newscasts included. "As an independent, global news organization, we did not think it was appropriate to participate in a U.S. government transmission," spokeswoman Christa Robinson said.Not a bit surprising..
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:30:03 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: GeoPie
To: Timesink
Having CNN throw a snitfit is the best possible outcome. Iraq will be far better off without that despicable network.
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:34:48 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Timesink
Christa Robinson is lying. CNN has no trouble with its shows being on Armed Forces Radio and TV. CNN simply has a problem with being associated with George W. Bush. So true. In China, there is "CNN Pacific" which had me howling with laughter when I was there. The leftist spew and disinformation on there was almost as hilarious as Baghdad Bob's daily reports were. (I miss Baghdad Bob!)
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:38:43 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Git Tikrit!!)
To: GeoPie
Thank you for posting this article.
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:38:55 PM PDT
by
fqued
To: GeoPie
Colmes will scare them back into their caves.....
Oh, that's Afghanistan. Well, he'll scare them for sure.
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:40:20 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I know what's best for you.)
To: Kurdistani
Im so dissapointed, I thought you were serious that foxnews was being broadcast there. What do you mean? He was not only serious, but correct.
To: Timesink
CNN declined to have its newscasts included. "As an independent, global news organization, we did not think it was appropriate to participate in a U.S. government transmission," spokeswoman Christa Robinson said. This is a savvy move, considering all the other murderous thugs who must now be wondering whether CNN will honor its commitments to their regimes.
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:44:55 PM PDT
by
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To: Kurdistani
What news channel do you think broadcasts Special Report with Brit Hume?
To: GeoPie
The administration launched the channel the day after Hussein's government collapsed and U.S. troops took control of Baghdad. U.S. officials said that within days, they hope to open a second television channel in Iraq featuring subtitled versions of the three major networks' evening newscasts, as well as PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" and
Fox News Channel's hour-long politics show, "Special Report With Brit Hume." The second channel, which the White House decided to fund yesterday, also will include about two hours of Arabic-language news from the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the government agency that oversees Voice of America. The channel might show White House, State Department and Pentagon briefings, officials said.
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CNN declined to have its newscasts included. "As an independent, global news organization, we did not think it was appropriate to participate in a U.S. government transmission," spokeswoman Christa Robinson said.
CNN BARF ALERT
The LW looks are going to go nuts at this, LOL
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:52:13 PM PDT
by
finnman69
(!)
To: Dog Gone; GeoPie; Timesink; Dog
Having CNN throw a snitfit is the best possible outcome. Iraq will be far better off without that despicable network.Amen to that!
Just found this terrific cartoon :
This is from the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ---Ontario, California
Los Angeles Newspaper Group
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posted on
04/11/2003 2:47:31 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)
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