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  • Anchors riding Iraq airwaves

    04/23/2003 1:30:50 AM PDT · by kattracks · 8 replies · 156+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | 4/23/03 | Jose Martinez
    Now starring on Iraqi TV: news the American way. Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather hit the Iraqi airwaves this week as part of a U.S.-led effort to use television to educate Iraqis about democracy. Freed for the first time in decades from state-controlled television, Iraq can now receive a nightly dose of "Iraq and the World." "It's not the kind of media they're used to seeing," said Norman Pattiz, chairman of the federal Broadcasting Board of Governors. The initial two-hour broadcast included news clips from ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS translated into Arabic. Fans of Fox news can...