Critics say satellite TV beams Arab, Western `poison' into Iraq

[dArKeR]

Oprah has a fan base in Iraq. Iraqi mothers fret about the amount of time their teenagers spend watching "Star Academy," an Arabic-language cross between "American Idol" and "The Real World."

And an ad for the satellite channel MBC's new lineup - which includes "Inside Edition," "Jeopardy!" and "60 Minutes" - declares: "So you can watch what THEY watch."

Satellite dishes, which Saddam Hussein and his coterie withheld from ordinary Iraqis, have sprouted everywhere since his regime fell. They sit on the roofs of mansions and sidewalk vendors' stalls, pulling in hundreds of channels from all over the world. Even squatters in a bombed-out and looted club once reserved for air force officers have a receiver set up, next to a swimming pool filled with trash and a layer of green slime.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11621486.htm

We won't stop until everyone in the world watches a decade of TV also!

Why does Oprah's skin look nearly as light as MJ's?

[Carolab]

1. I see BushCo has installed propagandists there too.

Samer al-Meshal, a journalist who writes for Sabah, a newspaper funded by the U.S. government, is addicted to a weekly program on Al-Arabiya that features a roundtable of Iraqi politicians.


Satellite dishes "occupy every roof of every house, and they also occupy every mind. It IS an invasion," he said, "but it's a nice one."

[dArKeR]

2. Do you think the NEOCONS edit 60 Minutes?

[Baker]

3. I doub't it

But the US government does run an arab television station that airs here in America. I believe it is currently available in NY but I'm not positive.