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Thursday, April 01, 2004
BANNED IN NIGERIA. The
so-called reform government of Nigeria has banned live BBC reports
from its airwaves. This story
on the BBC website doesn't do it justice - this morning I heard a
report on the BBC World Service (broadcast locally by
WBUR
Radio, 90.9 FM) that
featured an Orwellian interview with a Nigerian official, based in
London, as to how live foreign newscasts could endanger national
security.
MAKING SENSE OF FALLUJA.
News Dissector Danny Schechter's indispensable
weblog is the place to go
this morning for a media roundup of the horror in Falluja yesterday.
He writes:
Here, the US government is
caught in a trap of its own making: it is in too deep to leave and
has no real exit strategy because officials know how unprepared
the Iraqis in the US-appointed Governing Council are to run
things.
Meanwhile, the English-language
website of the Arab news organization Al-Jazeera is curiously subdued
on the attacks. The incident barely rates a tease on the
home
page, and the Falluja
killings and mutilations are relegated to the second item in a
roundup.
Interesting news judgment, given
how obsessively Al-Jazeera lingered over images of death and
dismemberment during the war last year.
Boston Globe columnist Jeff
Jacoby picked a
bad day to say how great
things are going in Iraq.
NEW IN THIS WEEK'S
PHOENIX. Boston's
dueling dailies, the
Globe and the Herald, have entered a new phase of their
long rivalry - one that threatens to consign the Herald to
irrelevance.
Also, why
can't you buy the anti-war
documentary Uncovered at Wal-Mart?
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
