Some really good stuff at this site...not the usual media 'fluff'

[keithyboy]

Media Patrol ( www.cursor.or.)

"A Christian Science Monitor article quotes a Saudi attorney who says that Wednesday's bombing in Riyadh represents "a strategic change in Al-Qaeda's tactics. This is their first direct attack on both a Saudi and a security target."

A group calling itself Al Haramain Brigades claimed responsibility for the Riyadh bombing, as a self-proclaimed "anti-American" group called the Yello-Red Overseas Organization threatened attacks against eight U.S. allies.

In a "Democracy Now!" segment on the increasing violence in the Middle East, author and blogger As'ad AbuKhalil says, "I don't understand why there is no debate in the American media and congress about what this administration has done to compound the problem of terrorism."

Philip Smucker samples pre 9/11 reporting on Al-Qaeda and bin Laden, and looks at how in the run up to war in Iraq, the mainstream media discounted the "idea that a pre-emptive U.S.-led invasion of Iraq without broad allied support would stir up a 'hornet's nest' in the Middle East."

Smucker was one of the first to report on how bin Laden slipped the noose from Tora Bora, which he also chronicles in his new book, "Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail."

In a Newsday op-ed, the author of a study released last month on media coverage of WMD, writes that pre-Iraq war coverage "not only disseminated the administration's logic, but because it didn't offer equally prominent alternative perspectives, it also validated it."

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1. fix da linky please

[Jim Sagle]

2. How's this?

http://www.cursor.org/

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3. more better

;)

[LynzM]

4. Lot of good insights in that

Particularly the one about why the US media never addressed the problems w/Iraq before the war, and why there's no discussion now about how we are actually motivating more terrorism. Thanks :D