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May 20, 2005
Out still but a tidbit
I am still out of office, but this tidbit from Abu Aardvaark (now unmasked as an academic specialist in media, explaining his time for such things) is interesting:
Excerpt from an interview in one of the leading regional dailies, ash-Sharq al-Awsat (The Middle East), with al-Arabiya's director, Abderahmane ar-Rashed.
http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2005/05/rashed_intervie.html
"Rashed criticized the American dealings with the Arab media, which he describes as indiscriminate and full of misunderstandings and reliance on incorrect messages, and also had this to say: "The main problem the Americans have in the region is that they don't know the Arabic language, so they confuse people and places and even policies and make fatal mistakes for themselves and for the people of the region... [and] have made big mistakes in Iraq because of this ignorance."
Quite true, really. Maybe not "the main problem" but certainly a serious problem.
Non-trivial really given the number of people who get their MENA news from the intel-op that is MEMRI and its nasty little spin (see the bit on al-Jazeerah in Abu Aardvark where MEMRI claims Jazeerah did not report on an item it ... actually reported a day before MEMRI's claim.)
Posted by The Lounsbury at May 20, 2005 09:11 AM
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