Saturday, January 06, 2007
Editorial judgment: the New York Times printed today a picture of a pro-Saddam demonstration in Beirut on its front page. Lebanese newspapers noted that the demonstration was quite small, and the New York Times even admitted that there were hundreds only spearheaded by Lebanese Saddam Ba`thist, `Abdul-Majid Ar-Rafi`i. In that sense, hundreds of demonstrators (pro-Saddam) get much more coverage than more than a million anti-Sanyurah demonstrators in Beirut. Like MEMRI, the New York Times and US media in general confine their coverage of Arab public opinion to either pro-Saddam (or pro-Bin Laden) Arabs or to pro-Bush Arabs. The majority of Arabs are in neither camps and they don't get any coverage.