2008/12/18 Mario Goveia <[email protected]>: > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:03:40 -0500 > From: "Bosco D'Mello" <[email protected]> > > Aye-aye-aye.....at the risk of irking 'amcho Bushacho > posko'........why ungrateful.....he/his family/his tribe might have > benefited from the SH largesse, no??
Ashow Row Kavi (whom I usually don't agree with) on the SAJA mailing list... interesting point: SOMEONE had to tell Bush he is not liked; that the rest of the world is totally horrified of the unwaranted invasion of Iraq that has killecd millions of innocents in :"colateral damage". If that someone was a journalist, too bad but that's the way the cookie crumbled. I personally think Al Zaidi stopped being a journalist and suddenly took out and put on his activist hat when he threw those shoes. But he has a right to do that as an Arab -- and human being -- who saw the horrors of what a powerful nation is doing to people who just want to be left in peace to work out their fate. Unlike his present employer, I would definately tell him that he's been a bad journalist but a great activist and honour him as such. I would be very careful of his subsequent reports whether his honesty was getting the ahead of his objectivity and check his facts carefully as a chief sub. His being "embedded in his Arab nationalism" was a very human reaction to something that is impossible to not be a part of. In fact it must be honoured because that is giving us the other side to this war. I would like to read his reports on Iraq and then judge him as a reporter but I was worried when his brother said he "detested America".
