Friday, August 23, 2013

Aljazeera America: brining the typical dumbness of US mainstream media on the Middle East

From Austin:  "So apparently the people at the nascent Al Jazeera America are adopting the ridiculous errors and dumbness that runs rife among their American peers vis-a-vis Middle East reporting. Check out this astonishing error:

"The blasts went off near two mosques, which were filled with people on the Muslim day of prayer. A gun battle then broke out nearby between Jabal Mohsen, which supports Syria's President Bashar Assad, and the anti-Assad group Bab al-Tabbaneh."

So apparently Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh are opposing "groups." Good to know. "