Two Amman-based Jordanian freelance producers have declared they will no longer work for Fox News Channel in a message that denounces the network as an "instrument of the Bush White House and Israeli propaganda."
Serene Sabbagh and Jomana Karadsheh's letter, dated July 31, was forwarded to scores of reporters and others. In the letter, they write: "We base our decision on moral issues. We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that."
The two women say the network has a responsibility to report fairily for the "sake of your very naive viewers." They say they hoped the network would "develop a degree of respect to people in this part of the world." But: "The disdain and blatant one-sided coverage of all Mideast conflicts only highlights your total lack of humanity and bias toward Israel."
They also criticize "inexperienced anchors" and their "racist comments," calling them a "shameful scar on the American Media," and comparing them to the "state run Television networks in countries you despise in the Middle East."
The text of the letter:
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006
Dear All,
We would like to announce our resignation from Fox News in Amman. Although we never actually worked for your organization, we helped for the past three years in facilitating your work in the Middle East.
We base our decision on moral issues. We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that. Not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House, and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism. You have crossed all borders and red lines. An Arab mother cries over the death of her child very much like an American and Israeli mother.
Arab blood is not cheap, and we are not barbarians. You ought to be more responsible and have more decency when you take one side against the other. You have a role to play and a responsibility to shoulder for the sake of your very naive viewers.
Throughout the three years we worked with you, and helped you, we thought you would develop a degree of respect to people in this part of the world. But the disdain and blatant one-sided coverage of all Mideast conflicts only highlights your total lack of humanity and bias toward Israel. Your lack of professionalism has made you a tool of ridicule throughout the world. Your inexperienced anchors with their racist comments are not only a shameful scar on the American Media, they simply represent state run Television networks in countries you despise in the Middle East.
Finally, our decision again is based on moral and professional basis and from now on we will no longer help in any Fox related matters.
FOX news doesn't discriminate in any way that I've seen. Some people just don't like the conservative political views that many FOX commentators and hosts bring to the picture. It is about political ideology, nothing as dramatic as "racism", which is just a lazy way of saying I don't want to listen to what they have to say.
No. They are pro-Capitalist, pro-Israeli, but you are anti-Capitalist, pro-Hezbollah, so you feel displeased with that view and you call them out, publicly.
Hope that settles it.
"This world is a blank price tag, and whatever value you put on it, is what its worth to you. I have made this world priceless and worthless, so therefore I have placed my value in the afterlife."
"We would like to announce our resignation from Fox News in Amman. Although we never actually worked for your organization, we helped for the past three years in facilitating your work in the Middle East."
So let me get this straight:
They "quit" somewhere without ever having belonged?
So let me get this straight:
They "quit" somewhere without ever having belonged?
facilitating the work is still being associated with ;em
Fox News isn't racist but needless to say, they are Israel's cheerleaders
I remember watching it and an Israeli Soldier fired at a reporter, even after that they were all making excuses and crap, very bad excuses to: "But this is Israel" etc.
No. They are pro-Capitalist, pro-Israeli, but you are anti-Capitalist, pro-Hezbollah, so you feel displeased with that view and you call them out, publicly.
No. They are pro-Capitalist, pro-Israeli, but you are anti-Capitalist, pro-Hezbollah, so you feel displeased with that view and you call them out, publicly.
Hope that settles it.
That's not fair. The implication you've made is that if you're anti-Fox News, you're also Anti-Capitalism and Pro-Hezbollah.
I don't like Fox News because it's far too right-wing for my tastes. Does that mean I'm Pro-Hezbollah and Anti-Captitalist? Do I sound like a Communist to you?
Fox is rascist? How is that? I don't watch American TV that much so please tell me how they discriminate?
Because they edit out portions of the news that might promote sympathy for any group who does not fully support Bush's agenda or personal view of the matter. For instance, they avoid using title "Mujahedeen" and replace it with the word "insurgents" because people might look up Mujahedeen on the internet and find out that they were once our allies in Afghanistan. The accusation is best told by a release from the Al Rashedeen Army's Abu Dugana Al Baghdady... in English... in an attempt to break what they call the media's "Code of Silence":
Abu Musab Al Zarqawi also addressed the lack of honesty in reporting, but Fox news never released his statements, and Bush achieved cover because most Americans don't understand Arabic. Fox covered the video saying it was a Rambo-styled propaganda video, referring to a one or two minute portion of the video toward the end... but they never told us that Zarqawi asked Mr. Bush why he lied to the American people and told them everything was fine. That's all I ever hear from Fox! The battle is going great, the Iraqis are taking more responsibility and everyone is happy with the progress.
Of course, Bush is making all kinds of waves by going after the New York Times for their role in publishing information and he's pushing the fact that we're at war as an excuse to shut everyone's mouths. To offer fair reporting, or even entertain a variety of differing opinions, you're taking a risk of violating new war-time security rules.
Ninth Scribe
Last edited by Ninth_Scribe; 08-08-2006 at 03:39 PM.
facilitating the work is still being associated with ;em
Fox News isn't racist but needless to say, they are Israel's cheerleaders
I remember watching it and an Israeli Soldier fired at a reporter, even after that they were all making excuses and crap, very bad excuses to: "But this is Israel" etc.
lol...Yeah!!!
OMG!! That waa sooo funny.....They were like "The bad guys always fire"....
And then some blonde lady reporter goes "but this is Israel"
Fox news are somewhat biased.....Not a trustable source....but then again what news channel is?
In April 2003, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly hosted a fundraiser for Best Friends, a charity benefiting inner-city schoolchildren. As reported in the Washington Post (4/15/03), O'Reilly was trying to fill the time before a singing group connected with the charity, called the Best Men, was set to perform, and quipped: "Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps."
According to the Post report, some of the conservatives in the audience were aghast at the seemingly racist crack. But if anyone was shocked by O'Reilly's apparent racism, they haven't been paying much attention.
Two months before O'Reilly's "hubcaps" remark, he used a racist slur on the air. Searching for a word to describe someone who assists immigrants crossing the border, O'Reilly came up with "wetback" (2/6/03). The incident was explained away by Fox officials as an unfortunate gaffe (New York Times, 2/10/03), but the Allentown, Pa. Morning Call (1/5/03) had O'Reilly using the same racist term in a speech earlier in the year: "O'Reilly criticized the Immigration and Naturalization Service for not doing its job and not keeping out 'the wetbacks.'" O'Reilly denied making the comment (Washington Post, 2/17/02), but the reporter stands by his account.
Though he calls his show a "no-spin zone," O'Reilly's response (CNBC, 4/26/03) to the "wetback" incident was a blatant, if feeble, exercise in spin--and an attempt to blame his guest:
We were talking about border patrol and the problems they were having. I'm going, "What's the jargon? What's the jargon? We got coyotes, right? Coyotes and we got wetbacks. Is that what they call them? Is that what they call them?" All right? And the guy goes, "Yeah. The wetbacks are the slang for the people who come over and the coyotes are the slang for the people who get paid to bring them over." That was the context.
A transcript of the show demonstrates O'Reilly's highly imaginative memory. Here's how the interview really went: In support of his proposal to militarize U.S. borders, O'Reilly remarked, "We'd save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes--they're not going to do what they're doing now, all right, so people aren't going to die in the desert." He then offered the "last word" to his guest, Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D.-Texas), who did not address O'Reilly's slur at all, but instead tried to explain why he thought using the Army to patrol the borders was a bad idea. (O'Reilly reneged on his promise to give Reyes the last word, interrupting him with a rebuttal.)
The actual "context" of O'Reilly's slur is a history of making derogatory, stereotyping comments about people of color. Just a few examples:
* During an interview for Stuff magazine (11/02), O'Reilly opined that "the most unattractive women in the world are probably in the Muslim countries." O'Reilly later insisted (New York Daily News, 10/10/02), "There was no malice intended. It was just in jest."
* During a segment (2/9/00) about black athletes suing over the minimum academic standards for college admission, O'Reilly commented: "Look, you know as well as I do most of these kids come out and they can't speak English."
* Criticizing Democratic politicians who met with Rev. Al Sharpton, which O'Reilly compared to meeting with white supremacist David Duke: "Why would it be different? Both use race to promote themselves." (3/16/00) O'Reilly also equated the Black Panthers with Duke (1/11/99): "You were promoting your people, black people, and he's promoting white people. So what's the difference?"
* "We have black leaders in this country who blame everything on whitey, everything's the system's fault, and that gives a built-in excuse to fail and act irresponsible. 'Oh, I can't get a job. Whitey won't let me,' or 'I can't get educated. The teachers are bad, so I'm going to go out and get high and sell drugs. That's the only way we can make money here.' You know what I mean? And it's a vicious cycle" (6/8/99).
* "Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality--because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it" (2/25/99).
* "I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam" (5/6/02).
After the "wetback" incident, O'Reilly wrote in a newspaper column (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 3/1/03) that Americans "must realize that racial demonization is now organized and well-funded, and it will not end until everyday people begin condemning it." He wasn't talking about himself, though; he was referring to critics who label him a racist.
All of them worship out of fear of fire
and consider deliverance abundant good fortune
or so they may dwell in the gardens , and reach to the meadows of paradise and there drink from its rivers
of gardens or fire i have no opinion
I seek no exchange for my Dearest Love
All of them worship out of fear of fire
and consider deliverance abundant good fortune
or so they may dwell in the gardens , and reach to the meadows of paradise and there drink from its rivers
of gardens or fire i have no opinion
I seek no exchange for my Dearest Love
Most of the O'Reilly comments you posted don't seem racist to me, more like an politically incorrect stance on reality. Some of them seemed inflammatory, but I'm not sure of the context. If you don't like Bill O'Reilly, don't watch the show. That is what they make remote controls for.
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