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Monday, November 10, 2003
# Posted 6:39 AM by Patrick Belton
The Daily Star (Lebanon): "Good Rhetoric and Goals Need Good Follow-Up Policies" Hafez Abu Se’da, head of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights: "It is an historical speech, and I agree with what the president had to say, and this is the first time....It is a new vision from the United States now because they focus on democracy. For a long time, they focused on economy and commercial interests. It is historical because the United States is talking about democracy and the interest of the people in these countries.” AGAINST: NYT, GUARDIAN, AND THE LEFT - Guardian: "It Would be Laughable, Were it Not So Pathetic" (which, incidentally, includes only one quote from an Arab source) MSNBC: "Arabs to Bush: Mind Your Own Business" (virtually the entire story, by the way, is made up of quotes from Iranian government sources - who, as OxBlog has often controversially pointed out, aren't Arab) Ditto NYT: "In Mideast, Reaction to Bush Speech is Dismissive," where the only actual dismissive reactions come from official Iranian sources, and, of course, from the reporter. World Socialist: "Bush Vows Decades for War for 'Democracy' in the Middle East'" (And the Times of India, by contrast, simply reports the speech this way: "Pak Not a Democracy: Bush") And who says there's no objectivity left in journalism? (0) opinions -- Add your opinion
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