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TomPaine.com
- 3/26/03
European TV
Shows Different War:
Unlike CNN And The BBC, Euronews Shows Raw Video From The Front
Here in Paris
there are many ways we can take our war.
We can walk outside in the unusually spring-like weather and join a peace
march -- there's usually one somewhere around. We can ignore it and sip
coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Or we can sit in the apartment and zap-zap-zap
between international CNN, BBC and Euronews, the French-based network
broadcast across Europe in English, French, Russian, Italian and Spanish.
All three of these big networks have taken advantage of Pentagon "embedded"
reporters to reap streams of video...
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TomPaine.com
- 2/23/03
'Old Europe' Is
America
Unlike The U.S., Europe Learned From The Past
PARIS—The wave of western soldiers landed in the Islamic nation, armed
with weapons and good intentions. They carried Korans translated into their
own language. Military leaders passed out leaflets to the citizens
professing a respect for the Muslim religion. Copies of Tom Paine's Rights
of Man -- translated into Arabic -- were given to local leaders.
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Paris: Living In A Truly 'Family-Friendly' Country
If the so-called "culture wars" of the last two decades didn't end on 9/11, at least they abated temporarily...
TomPaine.com
Why
Aren't U.S. Journalists Reporting From Iraq?
This week we are finally getting to the core excuse from the Bush
administration for attacking Iraq right now. Vice President Dick Cheney, in
an interview with CNN’s John King on Sunday, laid it out nice and simple,
the way they like it back in Wyoming: "We have to worry about the possible
marriage, if you will, of a rogue state like Saddam Hussein's Iraq with a
terrorist organization like Al Qaeda."...
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MISSING THE OIL STORY
Recently I attended one of those legendary Washington dinner parties,
attended by British cosmopolites and Americans in the know. A few courses
in, people were gossiping about the Bush family's close and enduring
friendship with the Saudi ambassador, Prince Bandar, dean of the diplomatic
corps in Washington. By the end of the evening, everyone was talking about
how the unfolding events were going to affect the flow of oil out of Central
Asia...
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The
American Media's Refugee Myopia
When Will Waves Of Displaced Muslims Make A Splash In The U.S. Press?
These are indeed interesting times to be an American living abroad.
International CNN, in some kind of ratings battle to steal world BBC
viewers, puts more effort into coverage of Yugoslavian soccer scores than
reporting the latest news from inside Washington. Meanwhile, British and
French newspapers fill the news-from-home vacuum with information Americans
in the United States aren’t getting at all...
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Dying For A Scoop
(audio)
Reflections On The Murder Of Daniel Pearl
(story)
Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl was not the first journalist to be killed covering
Muslim extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan since September 11th. He was
the ninth. But he was the first American, and his murder has merited
presidential attention as well as obituaries any journalist would be proud
to leave behind...New York
Observer
Ms. Burleigh reviews
Cad: Confessions of a Toxic
Bachelor, by Rick Marin (Hyperion, 2003).
Everyone knows that
Manhattan is filled with women who can status-check in a nanosecond. A
flick-of-the-eyes subway scan tells them if the shoes are Prada or knockoff,
how much the purse cost, whether the highlights came from Anna Wintour’s
latest salon pet or the storefront Jean Louis David colorist.
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