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Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Media - three worlds
International media presents the Iraq invasion in a dramatically different way from US media, and the Arabic/Islamic world presents it in a third way. Not surprisingly, it seems that the most balanced and critical information comes from the countries not directly involved in the conflict.
 Norwegian media, which I am most familiar with, typically: (a) Balance the views and information from both sides, with a critical analysis and making the biases explicit. (b) Give in-depth background information. (c) Is critical to and analyze the spin of US government and media, as well as that of the Iraqi government and media. (d) Emphasize the uncertainty and problems with the US strategy (both invasion and occupation). (e) Prior to the war, emphasized that there was no connection between Iraq and terrorism, no evidence for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and misleading insinuations and information from the US and UK. (f) Emphasize strongly the human view - the reality and horror of war and the suffering of the civilians - including (i) interviews with regular Iraqi people and those wounded and those having lost relatives, (ii) photage of the destruction, and (iii) photage of US Prisoners of War.
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