Friday, July 08, 2011

Aljazeera propaganda festival

This has been most frustrating.  I have had aljazeera on since I woke up.  And there is barely anything on the Arab world: it is non-stop coverage of Youtube coverage of phone coverage of Syria from anonymous sources.  For much of the morning, I have been bombarded with accounts from "Abu Ja`far" in Hums.  At one point, Abu Ja`far was reporting on a 100,000 people demonstration in Dayr Az-Zur.  The anchor asked whether that number can really turn out in Dayr Az-Zur.  Abu Ja`far said: it is most easy to count 100,000 people in Dayr Az-Zur.  Kid you not.