NY Times's Guide to Arab Media
In the February 6 Week In Review section of the New York Times, Hassan Fattah presents a guide to Arab television and print media outlets. The article gets at the multiplicity of voices in the Middle East and differences between them, rather than reducing Arab media as "Al Jazeera and other media outlets ...", which it has done in the past.
Posted by on February 7, 2005 at 04:37 PM in Media landscape | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (227)
Iraqi Police Use Kidnappers' Videos to Fight Crime
Last year, we ran a few articles (see #8-10) on terrorists' use of graphic video tapes as a psychological tool. Iraqi police are now using this tactic to fight back, says this NY Times article:
But this time the videos, which are being broadcast on a local station, carry an altogether different message, juxtaposing images of the masked killers with the cowed men they become once captured.The broadcast of such videos raises questions about whether they violate legal or treaty obligations about the way opposing fighters are interrogated and how their confessions are made public.
Posted by Matthew Burton on February 5, 2005 at 03:18 PM in Prisoner Confessions | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (188)
