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.