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  • Helen Thomas: "Only dictators ban television news"

    11/30/2003 1:19:39 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 58 replies · 457+ views
    Seattle Post-Intelligence ^ | 11-30-03 | Helen Thomas
    WASHINGTON -- The raid by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi officials on an Arab television network bureau in Baghdad and the ban on its broadcasts hardly fits my idea of how to spread democracy in the Middle East.Isn't that the first thing dictators do -- shut down broadcast outlets and newspapers? For those in power, tolerating a free press is difficult, even in a democracy. As a foreign occupier in Iraq, we are proving it is intolerable.The terrible irony here is that we pride ourselves on offering a model to the rest of the world on how to design -- and live...