Here sunni, sunni, sunni. Don't step in the shiite. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:36 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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