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Bombing of independent media in Iraq

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday April 08, 2003 08:53author by Matthew

Al Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV, some of the few independent media outlets left in Baghdad, have had both their offices in the capital bombed.

Al Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV, some of the few independent media outlets left in Baghdad, have had both their offices in the capital bombed. One Al Jazeera reporter confirmed dead so far.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0408/iraq.html

In other news, the ex-CIA direstor, James Woolsey, who says that America is engaged in World War 4, is tipped to take over the Iraqi infomation ministry. Information ministries are common throughout in most Middle East (except Qatar) dictatorships as instruments of propaganda and censorship. So much for freedom of the press in the 51st state.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/dailybriefing/story/0,12965,931534,00.html

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al jazeera really isn't an 'independent media' source
author by not really frothing at the mouth anymorepublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:52author address author phone

that is a bit innacurate.
Al Jazeera is a commercially maintained Media source a multinational in fact with serious funding from several "semi-state bodies" and as of two months a very healthy advertising budget in English.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/41464

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