Ernest, thanks for finding and posting this great paragraph. For years I have felt and claimed that the Islamofacist thugs like Soddomite had bought out a large part of the mediots. Then, it has been obvious to many of us, that the super rich Opecker Princes bought out most American, UK and Euro trash mediots going back to the Carter days.
Saddam created another committee under [Tariq] Aziz, to expand and improve media operations worldwide . . . by financing . . . friendly newspapers and other media outlets, giving the owners and workers awards and monthly salaries, and bringing them to Baghdad to coordinate. The Ministry of Culture and Information, IIS, Baath Party and the Iraqi Press Association, which is headed by Uday Husayn, were represented on the committee.
Saddam created another committee under [Tariq] Aziz, to expand and improve media operations worldwide . . . by financing . . . friendly newspapers and other media outlets, giving the owners and workers awards and monthly salaries, and bringing them to Baghdad to coordinate. I bookmarked this great article ten minutes after you posted this.
The semi-trailers full of info is going to ruin a lot of journalists and politicians careers, deservedly so.