Is the American press, radio and TV acting as the media arm of the Obama Administration? This criticism, made very often on the American right – and for many years in regard to Reagan and Bush on the American left – appears in this article from Jordan’s Al-Arab al-Yawm, as a warning to the world not to fall for it.
For Al-Arab al-Yawm, Amal al-Sharqi writes in part:
It is well known that the American press, in spite of the broad spectrum of freedom it enjoys, remains directed by political inclinations, intelligence agencies and special interests. … We now confront a Super Campaign to create a Super Legend out of Obama. … Traumatized by their economic collapse, haunted by fears of unemployment and bankruptcy and horrified by the immensity of the hatred the world feels toward them, Americans are entitled to cling to their illusions. But the rest of the world’s people, including ourselves, are required to show scrutiny and patience before rushing in with excessive optimism. With all due respect to Obama’s courage and objectivity, we mustn’t succumb to illusion or give in to a myth.”
By Amal al-Sharqi
Translated By Mohammad Yousuf Fadal
April 21, 2009
Jordan – Al-Arab al-Yawm – Original Article (Arabic)
It is well known that the American press, in spite of the broad spectrum of freedom it enjoys, remains directed by political inclinations, intelligence agencies and special interests. This is clearly reflected in the coordinated and simultaneous coverage of certain issues that inflame public opinion to wage war or secure international [U.N.] resolutions condemning other nations. Perhaps the most prominent recent examples of this type of promotional campaign were claims that Iraq had acquired weapons of mass destruction and that there was genocide on Darfur. The first claim was belied by facts on the ground, while the second was recanted by the International Criminal Court.
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