Listening Post - Media coverage of Darfur -11 Jul 08-Part 2

This week's edition of The Listening Post is devoted to the media coverage of one of the most tragic and misunderstood crises in Africa: the humanitarian disaster in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• aljazeera
• listening
• post
• media
• coverage
• darfur
• sudan
• arab
• western
• sudanese
• khartoum
• salah
• khadr
• richard
• gizbert

[confusa115]

I think it's good to hear a different voice than the western/us propaganda we are exposed to everyday.

[bluecafe22]

Great video.

I've been frustrated with the media coverage of Sudan for sometime. My dad was sent to Sudan not long ago to help with the situation there. However, he was not able to stay long, as rebels began killing AU soliders, and the French company he was with thought it was too dangerous to keep him there.

I also do not appreciate how the western media tends to frame the conflict as being one between "racial" groups, when it clearly is not one.

[howzindahouse]

Very interesting coverage from both sides

[Graham6762]

The iraqis were killed by each other not the US you moron. One million two hundred thousand is exagerrated as well jew.

[mohdd2]

I think just listening to Mia Farrow summerize the whole Darfur conflict shows amazigly how dangerous these ignorant celebereties can be. Time and scanty videos like this will eventually hopefully show how rediculous the media has made the Western and American public on this and maybe similar global issues.

[mkonlani]

fuck omar beshir

[congiestale]

What about 1.2 million death Iraqis that were killed becuase of invasion of brutal/babrbaric US invasion...is that not a genocide?

[mrshutter77]

Rest assured that these fuckin celeberties do not give a flying fuck about anyone other than themselves, this nothing but a marketing campaign to boost their own images, People I warn you whenever a fuckin celeberty is campaigning for a cause, grab you wallets and hold on to them tight.

[andreleroux12]

obviously you do not watch AlJazeera on tv

[MagicalSpaceDevil]

It seems to me that Al-Jazeera's complaints about how western media covers Darfur is quite applicable to itself and how it actually covers the Israel-Palestine conflict. They really shouldn't be talking when they choose to give one conflict which sees 3% of the amount of the death Darfur does ten times the coverage.