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Oct. 5, 2007
“Soldiers in Haditha Massacre Should Not Be Tried for Murder,” Al Jazeera English, Qatar
“Death Toll Rises in Iraq,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Iraq Promises to Fight Kurdish PKK,” Baghdad TV, Iraq
“The Knights of the Two Rivers,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Jerusalem Day in Iran,” IRIB2 TV, Iran
“Palestinians Pessimistic of Bush’s Conference,” Syria TV, Syria
“Palestinians Prevented from Friday’s Prayer,” Dubai TV, UAE
“MIR – Musharraf: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” Link TV, UAE
Dandelion Salad 
Thanks for the comment and link, Rita.
Writes Harry Shearer:
At least one commenter has opined that the Burma freeze-out on US cable news is because of the non-existence of video from the scene. That’s easy to say if you’re watching US cable news, because they’re not showing any. But Al Jazeera English and BBC World have managed to get video–probably via cellphone–out of Rangoon.
The “notion that people halfway around the world are braving lifetime prison terms and possibly death for daring to peacefully protest against a brutally despotic government speaks to me. The notion that folks in Burma are trying everything — email, cellphone, e-pigeon — to evade the regime’s attempts to close the country down to outside observation makes me want to pay attention. So why is it, given a story of people fighting for freedom against a fearsome military junta, that cable news far preferred this week to discuss the burning question: Is Bill O’Reilly really a racist? One can’t be surprised that the subject might obsess Mr. O’Reilly. He, like media figures from Limbaugh to Stern, has figured out that, whatever the putative subject matter of the day, what his audience really cares about is the Great Him.”
The story in Burma just gets worse. American media, to the extent they ever cared about the Burma story, have moved on.
We allow ourselves to be roused to warlike ire by such stories when the government sees fit, even when those stories are untrue. But here, when the reporting on Burma seems against all odds to truthfully reflect the awful situation there, it’s hard for us to be roused even to a simulation of moderate interest…
UPDATE: “We’ll continue to cover this story, no matter how long it takes..” That was Anderson Cooper Tuesday night, wrapping up a CNN segment in which “exclusive” video of the demonstrations (and the military response) in Burma was aired for the first time–on CNN. Tuesday night–more than a week after the demonstrations occurred, and almost four full days since Al Jazeera English and BBC World aired if not the same almost virtually identical footage. How about continuing to cover it while it can still do some good–i.e., while demonstrators are still putting their lives on the line in the hope of some support from the West?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/if-a-tree-falls-in-burma_b_66863.html