U.S. Uses Iraqi TV to Send Its Message (US to broadcast fox news in Iraq)

Washington Post ^ | riday, April 11, 2003 | Mike Allen

[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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[3AngelaD]

What a guy.

[rabidralph]

we need to get a couple of episodes of South Park uplinked, featuring Saddam and Satan in bed.

[nutmeg]

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."

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[Alamo-Girl]

Yeehaw! Thanks for the heads up!

[livius]

Thanks, really interesting post.

As for CNN not showing up, since they and Baghdad Bob seem to have been all one deep down inside, I doubt that the Iraqis will be missing much.