Iraq PM bans TV from showing attacks

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has banned television channels from broadcasting gory images of daily bloodshed in the country, the interior ministry said in a statement.

During a visit to the ministry on Wednesday, Maliki issued an order prohibiting broadcasters from showing "blood and killings that magnify the horror" and warned of legal action against those violating the order.

Major General Rashid Flayah, head of a national police division, urged reporters to tone down stories that could inflame sectarian passions in a country riven by violence between Sunni and Shiite groups.

"We will let you do the job, but we want you to stop publishing pictures that arouse passions and sectarian feelings," he told a news conference. "You should reject it. We are building the country with Kalashnikovs and you should help in building it with the use of your pen."

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[TomInTib]

1. DVD sales should go thru the roof. Every market in the country sells them

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. There was just a story on Fox news that a N.Y. cable broadcaster

has been arrested for broadcasting Al-Jeezara (?) in the N.Y. area.

This must be democracy in action.

[dipsydoodle]

5. This one ?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2473101

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. Yeah, I saw that after I made my post here. Although

that is claiming that is was a broadcast of Hezbolla so I'm not sure what is really going on but it without a doubt raises questions weather or not we have a free press.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Whatever

- censorship is never a good sign in either country.

[rodeodance]

10. Bush et al obviously does not trust our democracy--like not showing cof

fins or torture pics etc etc.

[Tempest]

3. Freedom is on the march!

I wonder how long this edict will last.

He tried this before and was ignored by most of the stations.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

11. LOL, Yeah freedom is on the march

Take care that you don't get trampled to death by it.

[HuffleClaw]

4. "We are building the country with Kalashnikovs" ????

and he's worried about what the MEDIA is saying???

[IndianaGreen]

6. Another example of American "freedom and democracy"

We don't get to see the bodies of the fallen being brought home, why should they see the horrors that America has brought to their country?

[YankeyMCC]

7. What an inspiration this march of freedom must be

to other leaders in the area. :sarcasm:

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. "blood and killings that magnify the horror" ??????? -

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how does showing reality "magnify" anything?

:shrug: