the war between sunni and shiite muzzies are not an American concern. let those animals kill each other into extinction.
On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 8:25:09 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/isis-iraq-propaganda-media-disturbing-scenes.html?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20160606&[email protected]&bt_ts=1465231725661 > How the Islamic State is winning the media war > > > > Representations of the Twitter and YouTube logos are seen in front of an > Islamic State flag, Feb. 3, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Dado Ruvic) > > Faced with what has been often described as the world’s most resourceful > and sophisticated terror organization > <https://news.vice.com/article/isis-has-a-really-slick-and-sophisticated-media-department>, > > Iraq’s news media outlets have stumbled in how to cover the Islamic State > (IS). The country’s news media appear to have unwillingly assisted IS in > disseminating some of its gruesome propaganda releases, thus enabling it to > achieve broader reach and possibly even impact. > > Summary⎙ Print Is covering the Islamic State’s activities a legitimate > public service or just propaganda that serves the extremist group? > > IS brutality and its dramatic expansion in Iraq over the last couple of > years has posed a major challenge for Iraqi media outlets. Is covering the > group’s activities a legitimate public service or an extension of its own > jihadi propaganda? > > While media editors and managers at major Iraqi news outlets are aware of > the ethical debate surrounding the use of propaganda materials by terrorist > groups, and especially graphic content, a combination of political agendas > and lack of rigorous editorial oversight appear to hamper the translation > of that knowledge into practice. > > “IS media products are a new and grave challenge for the Iraqi media,” Ali > al-Sarayi, the editor-in-chief of Iraqi Media House, an organization that > monitors Iraqi media outlets' performance, told Al-Monitor. “Iraqi media > has to craft a new language and a new strategy to confront IS propaganda > and its big media machine.” > > He lamented the use of IS propaganda as a widespread phenomenon in Iraq's > news media and said disseminating such materials is insensitive or plain > traumatizing at times. > > A quick search on websites and YouTube channels of some of the mainstream > Iraqi news outlets shows they have failed, to varying degrees, to exercise > the due level of editorial diligence when dealing with graphic IS > propaganda content. > > Alsumaria, an Arabic-language media network that runs a popular TV channel > and online operation, appears to have been largely lax in terms of its > approach to IS propaganda. On May 30, 2015, Alsumaria ran a video on its > YouTube channel showing in full detail IS' execution of a minor somewhere > in Syria. > > In its coverage of IS' massacre in June 2014 of allegedly around 1,700 > Shiite military personnel near the city of Tikrit, Alsumaria has repeatedly > shown <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8uWTQF_xVI> distressing images of > IS herding the captured military cadets > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZZGkAeN0-M> in highly humiliating > conditions. > > Hameed Qassim, who served as Alsumaria network's news supervisor until the > end of 2015, plays down the outlet’s use of IS propaganda. Qassim told > Al-Monitor, “Maybe in the beginning such things happened … But we tried to > resolve this issue. Of course we are a big institution and it is not easy > to control everything. Our criteria were complying with human values … and > journalistic and professional codes of ethics.” > > Qassim and other Alsumaria editors say they are aware of IS’ “terrorist > agenda” and how it seeks to plant fear and create major psychological > impact on the public. But despite statements by Qassim and other senior > editors, the outlet still appears to be inconsistent in its application of > ethical and professional guidelines with regard to IS propaganda. > > Efforts by terrorist organizations to exploit media to seek attention, > recognition and legitimacy in the eyes of the public are nothing new and > have been the subject of much research > <https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742510838/mass-mediated-terrorism-the-central-role-of-the-media-in-terrorism-and-counterterrorism> > . > > Attempting not to fall behind in covering what might attract the public's > attention, traditional and digital media outlets sometimes end up > unwillingly acting as a force multiplier allowing IS to reach millions more. > > Similar to Arabic-language news outlets, many Kurdish outlets have, albeit > unintentionally, ended up serving IS propaganda goals. In the autonomous > Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Rudaw > <http://rudaw.net/mobile/arabic/middleeast/070220153>, a major news > network that launched in 2013 and is funded by Kurdistan Regional > Government > <http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/04/iraq-kurdistan-lobbying-congress-krg.html> > Prime > Minister Nechirvan Barzani, for months aired and published scenes from IS' > graphic propaganda materials. > > When the jihadi organization released a gruesome video in February 2015 > showing how it burned alive Muath al-Kaseasbeh > <http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/02/jordan-denies-land-offensive-islamic-state-syria.html>, > > a downed Jordanian pilot, Rudaw ran highly graphic portions of it on TV and > its popular websites. (It later deleted a video with graphic content from > its website.) > > Hemin Lihony, the head of Rudaw's digital service, justified their > decision to show Kaseasbeh's burning by saying at the beginning of the > report that they wanted Kurdish audiences to know the true face of IS. > > In October 2015, Rudaw revised its editorial policy on IS, deciding to no > longer run graphic content that might be deemed by audiences as disturbing > and offensive propaganda. Lihony said they initially ran graphic > IS-produced content to show the barbaric nature of the group to Kurdish > audiences. > > “If Kaseasbeh's video was released today, we would not run those images or > would blur them because people now know what a brutal group IS is,” Lihony > told Al-Monitor. > > There is indeed evidence that suggests Rudaw has stuck to its editorial > policy with regard to graphic materials produced by IS. For instance, while > the network ran disturbing images > <http://rudaw.net/sorani/world/210220156> of a member of the Kurdish > peshmerga forces > <http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/iraq-mosul-peshmerga-islamic-state-war-southeast-offensive.html> > > moments before he was beheaded by a masked IS militant in January 2015, it > has in more recent cases refrained from showing images > <http://rudaw.net/sorani/kurdistan/021020155> of peshmerga prisoners > being executed by IS or opted for not showing their faces > <http://rudaw.net/sorani/kurdistan/3009201523>. > > Sarayi said the country's news outlets have largely had the wrong approach > to IS propaganda. “When it comes to IS propaganda, the Iraqi media's > approach is mostly emotional rather than strategic and farsighted,” he > said. “They think by running such propaganda they will gain more sympathy > for IS victims and demonstrate IS’ atrocities and violence to the > audiences. But the outcome is perhaps the opposite because at the end they > are propagating IS' power and viciousness.” > > This, Sarayi said, “was apparent in the widespread sense of fear among > many sections of Iraqi society when IS expanded into the country in > mid-2014. Many civilians fled and members of the security forces did not > put up much resistance as IS' reputation for brutality had preceded it.” > > Even outlets with direct links to the government have been fluctuating in > their strategy in dealing with IS propaganda material. The Iraqi Media > Network <http://www.imn.iq/> (IMN) was designed as Iraq's public > broadcaster with the intent that it would one day become Iraq's BBC. > However, the outlet has become more of a state broadcaster reflecting the > government or ruling coalition's views and interests. > > IMN-affiliated outlets have run graphic and insensitive scenes > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nr6H_TBdQU> taken from IS showing mass > executions of Shiite military personnel in Salahuddin province or snapshots > showing beheadings. Reflecting a common thinking among Iraqi media > managers, the network's editors say the aim has been to “show the true > nature of IS to the world.” > > IMN's managers say they do not have an all-encompassing rule for IS > propaganda and deal with each case according to its traits and how it > serves the network's mission. > > “In the case of the Jordanian pilot's execution by IS, we showed it so > that the Arab public opinion would learn the truth of what IS is and what > it stands for,” Jafar Wanan, IMN's former chief news editor who served > until late last year, told Al-Monitor. “We did this to provoke Arabs > against IS and to show the group targets everybody." > > Among major news media institutions in the country, the Kurdish-language NRT > TV <http://www.nrttv.com/> and digital service stand out for having > approached IS propaganda with a clear-cut policy from the beginning that > prohibited the use of graphic IS-produced materials. > > Twana Osman, the chairman of the Nalia Media Group > <http://www.nalia.org/Dep-Nalianewsagnecy.aspx?jimare=14> that owns NRT, > said shortly after IS occupied large parts of Iraq in mid-2014 that new > guidelines were set for the newsroom. “We generally have a policy not to > run scenes from graphic videos produced by IS because these are obviously > meant for psychological warfare,” Osman told Al-Monitor. “We are in a state > of war with IS. If we run those materials, we will assist IS to achieve its > political and psychological objectives.” > > Osman said the policy is about videos, but even if a graphic photo > initially makes it to the website, it will be likely removed after the > staff notice it. > > Multiple searches on NRT's website for major IS atrocities did not render > any results that contained graphic images. For instance, when reporting IS' > execution of a number of Kurdish peshmerga forces in late September, NRT > only ran an image containing the channel's logo. It also did not show any > scenes from IS' burning of the Jordanian pilot. > > “Before IS' expansion in Iraq, the group had already won the media [war] > by making us all so scared of them. 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