Pentagon Plans Iraq TV Channel

[joanski01]

I sure hope we hear a lot of loud objections to this kind of propaganda.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42547-2003Nov14.html

Pentagon Plans Iraq Channel
Satellite Link Allows White House to Bypass TV Networks
By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 15, 2003; Page A17


In an escalation of White House efforts to circumvent what President Bush calls the news media "filter," the Pentagon plans to launch a 24-hour satellite channel from Baghdad to make it easier for U.S. television stations to air government-authorized news about Iraq.



The satellite link, dubbed "C-SPAN Baghdad" within the administration, is to go on the air in a week or two. It begins at a time when guerrilla violence in Iraq is increasing and the White House is revising and accelerating plans to transfer governing authority to Iraqis.

Administration officials assert that U.S. news organizations have emphasized violence and setbacks in occupied Iraq while playing down progress. The officials say the satellite capability is designed to help local stations interview U.S. authorities in Iraq and offer live coverage of military ceremonies and briefings relevant to their geographic areas.

The channel is the most aggressive yet of several administration efforts to bypass national news organizations, including a succession of interviews for local television stations with Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others.



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"We want the stations to show not just the shocking picture but the whole picture,"

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[soothsayer]

1. barf alert, as our freepers cousins would say

i doubt this will overshadow the helicopter downings and train derailings and warfighter deaths in the real news (or as close to real news as we get anymore)

[kentuck]

2. They will show re-runs of I Love Lucy and I Dream of Jeannie....

NOthing will make mush-like brains like good old American comedies...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. How much do you wanna bet

that Faux will air the White House stuff exclusively? Where is the money for this network coming from? Maybe we should all write our Congresspeople and find out.

[leftchick]

4. not happy enough with state sponsered faux news?

I believe this will just become another target for the freedom fighters in Iraq.