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Old May 6th, 2003, 02:16 PM        U.S. Hires Christian Extremists to Produce Arabic News
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U.S. Hires Christian Extremists to Produce Arabic News

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, AlterNet
May 2, 2003

The U.S. government this week launched its Arabic language satellite TV news station for mostly Muslim Iraq. It is being produced in a studio – Grace Digital Media – controlled by fundamentalist Christians who are rabidly pro-Israel. That's grace as in "by the grace of God."


Grace Digital Media is controlled by a fundamentalist Christian millionaire, Cheryl Reagan, who last year wrested control of Federal News Service, a transcription news service, from its former owner, Cortes Randell. Randell says he met Reagan at a prayer meeting, brought her in as an investor in Federal News Service, and then she forced him out of his own company.


Grace Digital Media and Federal News Service are housed in a downtown Washington, D.C. office building, along with Grace News Network. When you call the number for Grace News Network, you get a person answering "Grace Digital Media/Federal News Service." According to its web site, Grace News Network is "dedicated to transmitting the evidence of God's presence in the world today."


"Grace News Network will be reporting the current secular news, along with aggressive proclamations that will 'change the news' to reflect the Kingdom of God and its purposes," GNN proclaims. ...
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Old May 6th, 2003, 02:29 PM       
What's wrong with presenting different points of view?
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Old May 6th, 2003, 02:45 PM       
I agree. They should have given the contract to a white supremacist broadcaster. I mean, that's a different opinion, right?

Seriously, Nalds, do you think that with their mission statement they allow for the possability that there is no God but Allah?

I'm not sure I'd find a radical islamic broadcaster a good choice either, but there are bucketloads of broadcasting and news gathering services out their that don't have a speciffic religous agenda. I wonder what the bidding process was like. I mean, I assume there WAS a bidding process, what with Capitalism and the free market being so important in when spreading the good news of Democracy.
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Old May 6th, 2003, 07:27 PM       
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What's wrong with presenting different points of view?
By that logic would you have Fox News broadcast the newsclips from Al-Jazera which present the war in a very negative light?
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