In der Tat bin ich sehr gespannt, wie das Netz reagieren wird. Ob es fuer die Masse verstaerkend wirkt (war bei einigen wtc "news" zu beo- bachten), oder ob alternative Quellen ueberhaupt oder evtl. auch in einer relevanten Breite durchdringen (koennen).
This is a forwarded message From: Georg Schoefbaenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 8:19:21 PM Subject: [infowar.de] Independent 25.02.03 (R.Fisk): How the news will be censored in this war ______________________________________________________________________ Infowar.de, http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bendrath/liste.html ------------------------------------------------------------- http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=381438 Robert Fisk: How the news will be censored in this war A new CNN system of 'script approval' suggests the Pentagon will have nothing to worry about 25 February 2003 Already, the American press is expressing its approval of the coverage of American forces which the US military intends to allow its reporters in the next Gulf war. The boys from CNN, CBS, ABC and The New York Times will be "embedded" among the US marines and infantry. The degree of censorship hasn't quite been worked out. But it doesn't matter how much the Pentagon cuts from the reporters' dispatches. A new CNN system of "script approval" the iniquitous instruction to reporters that they have to send all their copy to anonymous officials in Atlanta to ensure it is suitably sanitised suggests that the Pentagon and the Department of State have nothing to worry about. Nor do the Israelis. Indeed, reading a new CNN document, "Reminder of Script Approval Policy", fairly takes the breath away. "All reporters preparing package scripts must submit the scripts for approval," it says. "Packages may not be edited until the scripts are approved... All packages originating outside Washington, LA (Los Angeles) or NY (New York), including all international bureaus, must come to the ROW in Atlanta for approval." The date of this extraordinary message is 27 January. The "ROW" is the row of script editors in Atlanta who can insist on changes or "balances" in the reporter's dispatch. "A script is not approved for air unless it is properly marked approved by an authorised manager and duped (duplicated) to burcopy (bureau copy)... When a script is updated it must be re-approved, preferably by the originating approving authority." Note the key words here: "approved" and "authorised". [..] ______________________________________________________________________
