Iraqi Elections and Iraqi Media

[Owlet]

From the Voice of America no less. Hope Iraqi media is a lot more independent than ours, but somehow I doubt it.

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=4739EAE7-4770-4832-B85CCF225C6793AE&Title=Iraq%20Preparing%20for%20Elections%20Despite%20Problems%20%20%20&db=current


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Iraqis will only have about three months to learn who the candidates are and what they stand for. That's because the Election Commission says it won't be until late October that people will be able to officially declare their candidacies. Even then, no one expects to see public campaigns because of the level of violence in Iraq. That's why the director of Assiyrian Television in Baghdad, Sammid Sahaff, says Iraqi media must accept full responsibility for informing the voters about the candidates.

Mr. Sahaff says Iraq's media must play a critical role in the

[madmom]

1. heard once that all the media in Iraq...

is controlled by Harris Inc.owned by Kathrine Harris (name sound familiar). One newspaper was not and they quit because they refused to be manipulated.