Listening Post - The media enigma of Boko Haram

[ikoronduka]

fuck you aljazeera, you know nothing about boko haram. it stems from ethnic violence and a push for an only muslim state. I remember when i was 11 and we had ethnic cleansing in the north of igbos and a retaliation in the south. I watched bodies pile up in the streets. These people are a bunch of thgs who want a division in Nigeria, and they found a toxic atmosphere in kano upper north side to grow. Infact if they try any of these in any other part of nigeria it would be tantamount to suicide.

[skinnym974]

Excellent program as usual, many thanks to AlJazeera for bringing us topics I see nowhere else (and certainly seldom ways if not at all in the US).

[nem700]

good program

[gshooting]

Battle for Nigeria's heart and minds? You've got to be kidding me. Boko Haram is a TERRORIST ORGANISATION. Stop talking about them like they're Red Cross. Idiots.

[nem700]

@gshooting

silly little americans shouldn't be allowed to comment on complex issues.

[gshooting]

@nem700 What on earth are you talking about? I'm not even American you idiot. This isn't a complex issue. Boko Haram are a terrorist organisation an they need to be eradicated, not negotiated with.

Clown.

[Nebulous1982]

> The Muslim Response to the Nigerian Church Bombings (27-12-2011) <

[PEACEOMPAZ]

Targeting journalist is promoting dictatorships and totalitarian regimes and it is against the Universal Human Rights of all people. We must protect journalists if we support free societies and peace.

[Redfingers]

16:36

haha, maybe I'm jaded too much, but that sounds like media all over the world....Rupert Murdoch is Moneybags McGee. Even MSNBC kicked Cenk Uygur off their network for ruffling too many feathers of the elites. Investigative reporting is dead in the United States, that's why I watch AJE. If only I had some investigative journalism on the US.

Most of our news networks are obsessed with sports and celebrity culture. The extent of their political coverage is horse race coverage of elections.

[PEACEOMPAZ]

@Redfingers Cenk had morals, principles and yes VALUES of telling the TRUTH...so MSNBC kicked him out. Interestingly enough many are now saying albeit silently the same, but don't have the character to say it publicly. In the end I think we will see Cenk of the Young Turks back.

[Redfingers]

Killing journalists is just sick.

[Hellhound30x]

@Redfingers sounds familiar...

[gshooting]

@Redfingers compared to what?

[nem700]

@Redfingers

some journalists are spies. you should not be so naive as to think all journalists are innocent.

[Redfingers]

@nem700

And you should be in a mental hospital.

[declaration963]

Fuck Aljazeera, they remove my previous comment !_!

[Tiranozauras]

@declaration963 And yet somehow this extremely valuable comment still exists...

[declaration963]

@Tiranozauras my previous comment wasn't rant, it's just TRUTH ABOUT BOKO HARAM and they remove it, i guess they are scare because their LIE has been uncovered.

[nem700]

do they even exist?

[thebossforlifeishere]

@nem700 Yeah they do.