Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Arab news network, al-Jazeera published an English version of it's website Monday, offering an alternative view on the events in Iraq -- often in striking disagreement with what's been reported here in the US -- and disturbingly provacative photos of dead US soldiers. It's no wonder then that the site was hacked on Tuesday, which would explain why I haven't been able to access it since (at first I'd wondered if it had been blocked by the US government).
I question the extreme nature of many of the articles, seemingly aimed at antagonizing American readers with editorials on the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington and "the joke" that is the US's coalition of "obscure" countries, all compounded by the fact that many of these opinionated stories remain without reporter by-lines. After watching any of the US news channels, however, it is an interesting change of pace. It makes you question the integrity of our own news sources.
As with anything, I'm sure the truth lies somewhere inbetween.
Et Cetera
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