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 'Change..the..channel!' The Admin has edit some words      
 Name: Art&Culture
18/4/2004
(12:29) GMT
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According to Virginia Tilley in Counterpunch website an 
Arab journalist had asked commanding Brigadier General 
Mark 
Kimmitt what people should understand about the US 
occupation from the images they were seeing of women and 
children killed in Fallujah, where over four hundred 
civilians have been killed and thousands wounded so far in 
the US attack to repress--who exactly?, the general 
answered: "Change...the...channel! Change...the...channel!"

Discussing such a controversial phrase Gary Smith has 
written to islamonline.net assured that this sort of 
response opens up the need for serious questioning about 
news censorship and the avoidance of unpleasant or 
unwanted 
news by the dominant news groups in the West. And added 
that there is also the need to question selective viewing 
and the preference to simply ‘change the channel” when the 
news offends or does not accord with what the public 
is “allowed” to see.
What do you think about such questions? And how you can 
consider general Kimmitt's recommendation?!! 

Read Gary Smith's article 
 
http://islamonline.net/English/ArtCulture/2004
/
04/article05.shtml
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All Replies to 'Change...the...channel!' (Total Number 10) Reply
 Title Name Replies Date(GMT)
 did cnn talked about..... abw 0(18:50) 21/4/2004
 To: Art ejd 1(1:46) 20/4/2004
 Al-Jazzera is FAR supperior to western media The admin has edit some words Reality786 0(19:0) 19/4/2004
 The Great Deceiver osboy 3(15:22) 19/4/2004
 problem solved chas 1(13:56) 19/4/2004
 it wont go away, if you change the channel.. Sahara2 1(18:43) 18/4/2004
 I think this is a problem from all sides Peaceful_Muslimah 3(16:42) 18/4/2004
 Good thoughts, I agree; Arab nations need major media reform R1111 2(15:21) 18/4/2004
 Wake Up , Arab! .................. 1(13:48) 18/4/2004
 Wake Up, America! The admin has edit some words News4U 1(12:56) 18/4/2004
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