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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Hurra TV
I am watching Hurra TV whenever I am in my hotel room. It is so bad that it is comedic. I mean that. It is run like station 5959 on public access television in the US. You feel even its people don't take it seriously. And they bring people who you have never ever heard of. Like they have now an "export on US foreign policy". Here name is Hiyam Nawwas. That is right. Their main presenter of its show, Sa`ah Hurrah is bad. So imagine the rest. They were promoting a show on Arab-Americans and they pronounced Dearborn as Derbeer--kid you not. And the non-difference between Obama and Bush in foreign policy is nowhere more evident than in Hurra newscast. It is the same in every way. Hurra TV news is modeled after Arab regimes' state TV news, exactly, but will less skill and worse command of Arabic. And Saudi Arabia is rewarded in Al-Hurra TV, by the way. Nice portrayal: much like Sweden.