Kelechi and Dzigbodi,
The last piece you read is just a parody of the current situation at hand.
At any rate, I have been following events as they unfold in the news and came up with an analytical piece on the American media and its coverage of the war, which appeared in the Badger Herald newspaper at UW- Madison. As a student in the fields of global communications and political science, I have expressed similar distaste for the ongoing presentation of images and media content that continue fill our television screen from Western ideological orientation.
The central theme of my latest piece focuses on U.S news media coverage of the war in counter relations to alternative news media that exist in the Arab world. My piece evaluates how the American media work to reinforce mainstream values, beliefs and tastes of the elite class. The ethical issues of substance, balance and fairness of news and information from both thematic and episodic perspectives are of paramount concern to me. I hope you'll have time to read it in the Badger Herald.
Thanks,
Alex Redd
We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that time is ripe to do right.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kelechi Eke <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, April 7, 2003 1:54 pm
Subject: Re: A Parody of the Iraqi Issue (why many missed the big picture)
>
> Brother Alex, your observation asserts that all women are
> housewives and all housewives can find "hidden stuff." I hope I
> did not misunderstand you. What flummoxes me is the fact that
> each time you turn to the war news you hear about how many oil
> fields the U.S. troops have secured and how many airports that
> they have in control. There is no mention of how many Iraqi
> villages or people are under their control or protection, yet they
> are there for Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is already weeks into
> the battle and we can only hope that OIF doesn't turn out to be
> Operation Iraqi "F"uel.
>
> ALEX LAGIA REDD <[log in to unmask]> wrote:I understand the
> reasons why some of you are furious over the U.S. invasion on
> Iraq. But least to say, that most of you seem to miss the big
> picture. That is, the failure of the United Nations, including the
> U.S, Britain and other "coercion of the willing" nations that have
> joined forces to kick out Saddam Hussein.
>
> Men Inspectors, hired by the United Nations, have been searching
> for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq for 12 years without no
> fruitful results.
>
> One big question that keeps lingering on my mind is why the United
> Nations cannot fire all the men inspectors and hire WOMEN
> inspectors. Women are very good at finding things. Women are
> housewives; they know where to find hidden things. Why the U.N did
> not give women the chance to search Saddam Hussein's palaces? Is
> this an act of discrimination against women or what?
>
> I bet, if women were given a chance to search for "Saddam's hidden
> weapons of mass destruction", by now, we would have had another
> story, instead of war. That is, if Hans Blix is replaced by Ellen
> Johnson Sirleaf or Vera Crowell or Adelaide Fiske, then we would
> have discovered the truth by now.
>
> RETHINK UN, RETHINK BUSH, RETHINK BLAIR, RETHINK ANNAN! Stop the
> war and let's give women the chance too to find the hidden stuff
> in Bagdad.
>
>
>
>
> Alex Redd
> Madison, Wisonsin
> We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that time is ripe to
> do right.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adelaide Fiske
> Date: Monday, April 7, 2003 12:00 pm
> Subject: Re: Iraqis
>
> > Very well said and thanks. Deliverance is a colorful word,but
> > during the process the devil is discovered in the details. Let us
> > watch to see how the details unfold.
> >
>
>
>
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