reply to post by lifeissacred
I'm surprised people haven't picked this up yet, why won't people compare the situation in Syria, to the situation in Iraq when US bombings
started? Where was the journalists to publish news from the other side, to show images and videos of the innocent victims who suffered under US
bombings?
That's the thing I don't get, it is war, the media is used as a tool to implement psychological warfare, it is done on all side, if you have a media
which does not support your point of view at war time, then you won't allow it. US did it in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, even targeting reporters. NATO
did it in Libya, bombing the TV station killing many reporters in the process. Right now in Libya many reporters working for Jamahariya government are
imprisoned, one video shows one reporter who have been tortured to death, are these reported by CNN? Or Al-Jazeera?
So why are people not comparing? Rather looking at the situation isolated, as if Syria is the only nation following the basic code of war. The same
nations talking about freedom of press and freedom of speech have also done it at war time.
Remember, once upon a time, Al-Jazeera had some freedom to publish without bias, but then Qatari Emire's son started running Al-Jazeera, that is when
you saw Al-Jazeera started to tow the line with Western media outlets.
I'm surprised, for a forum which says deny ignorance, a lot of people show deep signs of ...