An auspicious beginning for Iran's English TV network.
"'An antidote to Fox': Iran launches English TV channel," by Oliver Burkeman, Helen Pidd and Robert Tait for The Guardian:
Much of yesterday's airtime was occupied by long extracts from a soporifically gentle interview with Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, and a slow-moving documentary about Russian culture. That - rather than the channel's overtly propagandistic tone - seemed likely to prove the biggest obstacle to its success. As Fox News discovered, you do not need to worry too much about the truth, just as long as you keep your reports to 60 seconds, and use a lot of loud music.Press TV's website took a more forthrightly partisan approach, emulating the design of the BBC News site to an almost spooky degree, but with material to make the BBC blanch. A story about the attempted attacks on London and Glasgow airport, headlined More threadbare propaganda from the west, was a perfectly serviceable account of recent events - until the final paragraphs, where the reporter suggested they were staged by the UK government, in order to tarnish the image of Muslims enraged by the knighting of Salman Rushdie.
Inside Iran, meanwhile, the channel itself did not seem to be available at all. At the launch of Press TV, at the headquarters of state broadcaster IRIB,president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said its goal was to counter "propaganda" peddled by western channels. "Knowing the truth is the right of all human beings but the media today is the number one means used by the authorities to keep control," he said. "We scarcely know a media that does its duty correctly. Our media should be a standard bearer of peace and stability. "
According to "President: 'Press TV' should be close to world oppressed people" from IRNA, while celebrating the launch of the new network Ahmadinejad had this to add:
"The message of media is the same as that of prophets." He went on, "All efforts should be directed so that borders between "truth and false", "selfishness and divinity", and "loving mankind and oppressing, threatening them" could be clearly in front of world people's eyes." Ahmadinejad called such news dissemination as a "diligence and struggle" and said, "The TV which is born today should be beside to the world oppressed people." The president underlined "Disseminating correct and timely news, and presenting correct analyses and disclosing behind scene of the mankind's enemies propaganda networks are among new TV's basic duty."
At least it will be entertaining.
Crossposted from The American Israeli Patriot.
And like that it is a Zionist controlled media deflecting blame from where it belongs(jews) and on to the innocent Brits. Amazing!
This doesn't surprise me. Apparently many Iranians believe that the British are master manipulators who are behind everything bad that happens. Even the Americans are the pawn of the Brits. LOL!
Peter Hitchens, a British journalist, came across this attitude during a recent visit to Iran. He reported a conversation he had with a muslim cleric.
" ... I had to try, but we were from different worlds, unable to communicate—until he changed the subject and began to question me about the captured British sailors. He was convinced that they were spies—since I am English, he was probably convinced that I was a spy—and could not be put off this fancy by the fact that the sailors had been wearing uniforms. This was a typical English double bluff, in his view."
Actually, none of these things really happened.
The so-called doctors were Isreali actors working for a Jewish run studio in Hollywood.
The firey Jeep was in reality, nothing more than computer animation, the black art of Jewish programmers working for the Mosad.
It's all so very simple; so simple, that even a simpleton can see through it.
Geeeeez!
Voice
of
America.
Radio free Persia.
Well, they just don't want the real truth to get out in their media. They all have a tendancy to re-write common knowledge on a daily basis.
Lies,,what else is new in islam?
"As Fox News discovered, you do not need to worry too much about the truth, just as long as you keep your reports to 60 seconds, and use a lot of loud music."
Right. Oliver Burkeman, Helen Pidd and Robert Tait need to find out just who they are rooting for. FOX is an excellent purveyor of the news and truth. Why don't these people get it? To mention FOX in the same breath as this Iranian sitcom is an outrage in itself. Maybe these folks can get a job with this station and put out the "real" truth.
Finally the truth has come out.
Ex-lover of Jesus and no lover of Judeo-Nazis.
TheOmegaMan, its the Guardian, they have to say that to make the BBC types that read it feel all smug and superior, you can just imagine them hugging themselve sin some sort of ritulistic group orgy.
In fact having read the report it was marginally less biased then the BBC...
Progressive, that is very progressive of you, lol.
Since when has the followers of the religion whose founder sanctioned deceit been interested in telling the truth? This is simply a station devoted to lies/disinformation which is the Islamic way.
"Knowing the truth is the right of all human beings but the media today is the number one means used by the authorities to keep control," he said. "We scarcely know a media that does its duty correctly. Our media should be a standard bearer of peace and stability. "
Ahmadinejad
The man wouldn't know truth if it tugged at his beard.
A standard bearer of peace and stablility?
This guy is a laugh riot.
Did Bill Burchett (sp) send them THAT story? I wasn't aware the Mary Mapes and Dan Rather had started working there...
My $$ is on Katie Couric reporting on this tonight, actually ignoring Iran, and totally focusing on the part about credibility on the Fox new network. Tonight on CBS blah...blah...blah
Are they implying that the Brits can't make as good a carbomb as the Iranians?
No argument there.
The broadcast suggests Iran definitely had a hand in helping events in England , and the Iranians are afraid it will be announced shortly. Perhaps the Ayatollahs have facilitated this for Al Qeda. Perhaps the Iranians have manipulated their half wit Islamic Sunnites cousins into plotting this mayhem. Is it merely a coincidence that the events in England came several weeks after Rushdie was knighted and several weeks after the government of Iran announced the death sentence on Rushdie was also a death sentence on the Queen for knighting him? Our conspiracy theories of a conspiratorial Iran are based on fact and motive.
The British did not stage the bombings...they just imported the principals....sigh...