atw: Re: OT: Presenting The Lies And Distortions of Al-Jazeera
- From: "Jonn Mero" <jmero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:53:39 -0800
Ah, don't worry (or really, DO)!
Dr Goebbels have many followers in Western press as well. Just look at
the coverage of the Gulf wars. Joe G. would have been proud of his
followers. And they seem to proliferate in the press controlled by
Murdoch (Dennis Potter was quite right about the compelling case for
shooting the swine).
shonny
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Subject: atw: OT: Presenting The Lies And Distortions of Al-Jazeera
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Hi folks:
And now, for your reading pleasure, please follow the bouncing ball as =
we read about the lies and distortions that Al-Jazeera calls the news:
Following is the text of my letter as reader feedback on a story that =
appears on Al-Jazeera's web site.
=3D=3D=3DBegin My Reader Feedback=3D=3D=3D
Hello,
Quite a bit of selective editing on your part went into the story about
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KBR's awarding an oil tender to an Israeli oil marketing company, I see.
From your story at this URL
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<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/14002292-509C-4896-951D-DAE550DF
B=
88F.htm>
I see you quote the USA's Energy Information Administration (EIA) as =
follows:
=3D=3D=3DBegin Al-Jazeera's Quoted EIA Web Page On Israel=3D=3D=3D
Not much oil
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), a statistical
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agency of the US Department of Energy, Israel produces almost no oil and
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imports nearly all its oil needs (around 237,000 barrels a day in 2002).
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Traditionally, major oil import sources have included Egypt, the North =
Sea, West Africa and Mexico.
In recent years, however, Israel has stepped up its imports from Russia
=
and the Caspian region and now reportedly gets most of its oil from =
former Soviet states.=20
Information provided by the EIA states that in April 2003, there was =
some discussion of "reopening" the old oil pipeline from Mosul in =
Northern Iraq to the Israeli port of Haifa on its northern Mediterranean
=
coast.=20
The line, which was built in the 1930s, carried 100,000 barrels a day at
=
its peak, but has been closed since Israel's establishment in 1948.
=3D=3D=3DEnd Al-Jazeera's Quoted EIA Web Page On Israel=3D=3D=3D
But what you didn't say was what the rest of the last paragraph in this
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story said!
Here now is what the entire paragraph from the EIA web page on Israel =
ACTUALLY says!
<http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/israel.html>
=3D=3D=3DBegin Actual Text of EIA Web Page on Israel=3D=3D=3D
In April 2003, there was some discussion of "reopening" the old oil =
pipeline from Mosul in northern Iraq to Haifa. The line, which was built
=
in the 1930s, carried 100,000 bbl/d at its peak, but has been closed =
since Israel's establishment in 1948. Today, however the Mosul-Haifa =
pipeline is in extremely poor condition (the Iraqi section is completely
=
rusted and the Jordanian section was sold as scrap metal several years =
ago), and reportedly would require hundreds of millions of dollars to =
repair/rebuild, even if this were politically feasible. Along those =
lines, Jordan has strongly denied any interest in rebuilding this =
pipeline at the present time, stating that "the pipeline no longer =
exists in Jordanian territory."=20
=3D=3D=3DEnd Actual Text of EIA Web Page on Israel=3D=3D=3D
And yet, you include a picture of pipes in an oil refinery and add the =
caption "A pipeline linking Mosul to Haifa is to be reopened."
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A pipeline linking Mosul to Haifa=20
is to be reopened=20
You bozos sure like to spread lies and disinformation so that there will
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never be peace in the Middle East, don't you?
In the journalistic light of day, it can now be safely proven that =
al-Jazeera is worthless as an international news channel. And I would =
NOT be surprised at all if it were one day learned that al-Jazeera is =
also owned by Osama bin Laden.
Thank you for proving to me what a fraud al-Jazeera really and truly is!
=3D=3D=3DEnd My Reader Feedback=3D=3D=3D
Moral of the story: Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee
=
was very right when he declared in 1978 that "We (meaning the print =
media) don't print the truth. We print what we know; what other people =
tell us. So we print lies."
Bradlee said this at San Francisco State University in the spring of =
1978. I know firsthand he said it because he was speaking on campus in =
one of my journalism classes way back then -- and I was actually present
=
at the lecture!
bone Appetite!
George Mena
Sr. Technical Writer
ESS Technology, Inc.
48401 Fremont Blvd.
Fremont, CA USA 94538
510-492-1763
e-mail: George.Mena@xxxxxxxxxxx
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our
=
country." -- President George W. Bush, State of the Union address, =
January 20, 2004
"Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears. ...no just =
cause can be advanced by terror." -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, =
September 11, 2001
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