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...Crimson CNN...
Nearly every day, CNN airs scenes of "Arab" jubilation in Jordan when Iraq launches a missile attack on Israel, or of "Arab" anger in Algeria when the Allies accidentally kill Iraqi civilians. The Pan-Arab myth has become so embedded in the Western mind (and in many "Arab" minds) that we are apt to label any action taken to advance the Palestinian cause, or the "have-not" cause, as an "Arab" action, representative of all Arabs. The fact is, the Arab in me and in many people in the Middle East died when we realized that the Middle East...
...that journalists went from heroes to villains in a matter of days. "Here they were, crouching under the table during the first air raid," he says. "But after a few days people started to ask, 'Why are they being so antagonistic to our guys? Why are they so suspicious?' " CNN, whose special privileges in Baghdad have inspired charges that the all-news network is getting too cozy with the enemy, is suffering a mighty backlash. More than 55,000 letters, phone calls and faxes have poured into CNN's Atlanta headquarters since the start of the war, about...
What is unique about the gulf war is that this conflict is being played out in live press briefings airing daily on CNN and C-SPAN and occasionally on the broadcast networks. Usually, the public gets only the end result of this process: digested reports on the evening news or in the morning newspaper. Now they are watching reporters in the messy business of doing their job: asking difficult, often contentious, sometimes impolite questions. "We look like bullies," acknowledges Richard Salant, former president of CBS News. Notes Stephen Hess, who studies the media for the Brookings Institution: "It's like...
...doesn't it change the equation that journalists in Baghdad are not permitted to report the "whole truth"? The choice, of course, is not between partial truth and the whole truth; it is between partial truth and no truth at all. Reports from Baghdad, on CNN for example, come with more warning labels than a bottle of pills. But no amount of caveats and qualifications will satisfy some people, who want no pictures of dead Iraqis unless "balanced" by pictures of dead Kuwaitis. They are like people who complain that the media never report all the planes that land safely...