Ex-marine joins Al Jeezra !

[Catchawave]

Crosspost from :http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=160455&mesg_id=160455



(sorry if this is a dupe, still catching up on email from the DC trip last weekend )



http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1110008,...

Josh Rushing, former Marine captain and an accidental star of the movie Control Room made news of his own last week when he signed on to become the American face of the controversial Arab news network Al Jazeera-International. Top U.S. officials, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, have repeatedly complained that Al Jazeera's coverage is unfair or untrue. Yesterday, Rushing sat down with TIME for his first interview on why he took the job and what the new network will cover.

The 33-year old Rushing came to fame in Control Room, a movie critical of media coverage of the Iraq war as a military public affairs officer who increasingly questions how the war was being portrayed by the Pentagon. In the movie, Rushing is articulate and passionate in defending the troops and never directly criticizes the war. And his honesty draws viewers to his side—he describes his different reactions to seeing on Al Jazeera images of Iraqi casualties one evening and dead U.S. soldiers the next. "It upset me on a profound level that I wasn't bothered as much the night before," Rushing explains at one point in the movie. "It makes me hate war. But it doesn't make me believe we can live in a world without war yet." He admits—then and now—to being troubled by the "politicization" of the military command and what he describes as U.S. TV networks being "co-opted" by the Bush Administration.

cont'd at link....

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Let's see the likes of

Rush, O'Reilly and Hannity try to spin this one! Wow. I'm surprised personally. But he is right about US media which is why I've turned it off. And I definitley recommend "Control Room." There you'll find out why Rumsfeld put this whole anti campaign with Al-Jazeera.

[bryant69]

4. Well i'm sure it will turn out that Rushing is an anti American monster

It's not like it's hard for them to spin this story. After all we do live in the Golden Age of Making Sh*t Up.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[ArkDem]

2. Al Jazeera is the one place where unbiased coverage can

be found.

[berni_mccoy]

3. Unbiased? I wouldn't go that far...

A different perspective? Yes.

[Catchawave]

5. Oh, and how we need a different perspective !

Unless your a fan of Olbermann and Stewart, there is none in the MSM! And they're on cable!

[cire4]

10. Well...they are more objective than any American network....

Only a fair and balanced channel could manage to piss off Osama bin Laden, the Iranian government, Islamic fundamentalists, Israel, Bush, and the American GOP, which is what Al Jazeera has managed to do.

[greenman3610]

6. please, please

see "Control Room", if you havent already

[cantstandbush]

7. He is in more danger as a journalist with Al-Jazeera than in the military,

I wish him well.

[Catchawave]

8. Kick for Rushing...

and "fair and balanced newsies" :)

[peacebaby3]

9. Here's another thread on the subject. Great story. I don't mind seeing it

again.

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