Some might wonder why six month old news on Haditha and other past atrocities is finally in the forefront but media insiders likely know the reason. Move over BBC and Fox, Al-Jazeera is spreading its wings. If you think timing of the Jessie Macbeth lie, which asserts that My Lai-type Massacres are widespread in Iraq, is accidental please consult your local mental health provider. If you blinked you missed the whole show but don't feel dumb. Mental missiles are firing across the web at a mind-boggling rate and no relief is in sight.
Prepare to experience information overload in the "War of Ideas" and buckle the mental safety-belt because an odyssey of illusion is just beginning in the wake of a new Al-Jazeera TV media, in English. While it appears something triggered a flood of facts and falsehoods; did a first English broadcast actually happen? Not long ago, reliable sources reported initial broadcasts were to begin in May.
We know why the current U.S. dictatorship desires deception. Pure profit is primary motivation for the dynamic-duo of deception that currently wields the Military Industrial Complex like clildren playing cowboy: But other than profit, what motivates Al-Jazeera?
New weapon in the “Global War of Ideas”By Ehsan Ahrari
May 29, 2006, 11:08 am
Al-Jazeera is about to establish its global television channel that will telecast news in English language within only a matter of months. The Anglo-American oligopoly of global telecasting of news is about to be over. Arab and Muslim perspectives on global events are about to take their appropriate place in the global arena. A truly global war of ideas is about to begin.
When al-Jazeera was established in 1996, no one had even heard of the phrase, “war of ideas” in the context of the world of Islam. It was established to give the Arab world Arab perspectives on major issues of global affairs. That idea became quite profound in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on the United States. During the post-9/11 era, a lot of ink has been spilled (or to put it in the context of the information age, thousands of keyboards have been pounded) on the subject of war of ideas...
From the perspectives of the Bush administration, the most troubling part of al-Jazeera’s coverage was that the American audience became increasingly aware of the “anti-American bias” of that channel, and how much the U.S. officials felt constrained and frustrated about not being able to counter it. The only difference was that up until now, most Americans did not actually see or hear the al-Jazeera coverage first hand. Now they are about to get that coverage in their living rooms. Consequently, the international coverage of battlefields will unquestionably undergo profound changes.
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2653.shtml With propaganda, news from questionable sources, like above, is particularly suspect, so Wiccipadia provides coreberating evidence of the date Al Jazeera first broadcasted in English. Al Jazeera outside the Middle EastOn July 4, 2005 Al Jazeera officially announced plans to launch a new English-language satellite service called Al Jazeera International. Highly protested by many Americans, organized campaigns surfaced against Al-Jazeera's efforts to establish the planned English language network in the United States, protests lead by groups such as the United American Committee. The controversy over Al-Jazeera's establishment in North America has been dubbed by some as "Jazeeragate". Al Jazeera has announced this long-expected move in an attempt to provide news about the Arab world, especially Israel, from the Middle Eastern perspective. The new channel will have broadcast centers in Doha (current Al Jazeera headquarters and broadcast center), Athens , London, Kuala Lumpur, and Washington D.C., when the station launches in May 2006. The channel will be a 24-hours 7-days a week news channel with 12 hours broadcasted from Doha and four hours from each of London, Kuala Lumpur, and Washington D.C.
In September 2005, Josh Rushing joined Al Jazeera International. He was the press officer for the United States Central Command during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and in that role was featured in the documentary Control Room. Rushing will be working from the Washington DC Bureau. He commented that "In a time when American media has become so nationalised, I'm excited about joining an organisation that truly wants to be a source of global information..." Former CNN and BBC news anchorwoman and award winning journalist Veronica Pedrosa and veteran UK broadcaster David Frost have also joined the team, along with Riz Khan, a former BBC reporter who most recently was host of the CNN talk show Q&A, CNN producer James Wright, and Kieran Baker, a former editor and producer for CNN who most recently was Acting General Manager, Communications and Public Participation for ICANN. On 2 December 2005, Stephen Cole, a senior anchor on BBC World and Click Online presenter, announced he was joining Al-Jazeera International. The network announced on 12 January 2006 that former Nightline correspondent Dave Marash would be the co-anchor from their Washington studio. He described his new position as "the most interesting job on Earth." On 6 February 2006 it was announced that the former BBC reporter Rageh Omaar would host a daily weeknights documentary series, Witness. With Al-Jazeera's growing global outreach and influence, some who thought of them as an "alternative media" source have changed their minds.
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