{"id":27724,"date":"2012-05-04T06:32:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T11:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27724"},"modified":"2012-05-04T06:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T11:32:38","slug":"it-would-be-a-cheap-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27724","title":{"rendered":"It Would Be A Cheap Shot…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…to say “Osama Bin Laden believed CNN, CBS, NBC and MSNBC would be friendly to him” – but it’s hard to read\u00a0this report \u00a0from the left leaning <\/a>Guardian<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0as much of anything but:<\/p>\n

Osama bin Laden pondered the merits of US television news channels as he considered how to extract the best propaganda benefit from the tenth anniversary of 9\/11 last year, and concluded that CBS was “close to being unbiased”.<\/p>\n

But an American-born media adviser for al-Qaeda warned Bin Laden to beware of the broadcasters’ “cunning methods” as he described Fox News as a channel in the “abyss” that should “die in anger”, CNN as too close to the US government and MSNBC as questionable after it fired one of its most prominent presenters, Keith Olbermann.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Al Quaeda heart Keith Olberman.<\/p>\n

No, no, no – again, a cheap shot, saying “terrorists endorse everyone but Fox”. \u00a0That’d wrong, wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n

And of special interest to bloggers:<\/p>\n

But [Bin Laden] also wondered if it would be good to work with an American channel, suggesting CBS as “close to being unbiased”. Bin Laden added that the organisation should approach a British journalist, Robert Fisk of the Independent, and other reporters to press home the message that the major powers would be better concentrating on climate change than pursuing al-Qaida.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why yes, that <\/em>Robert Fisk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…to say “Osama Bin Laden believed CNN, CBS, NBC and MSNBC would be friendly to him” – but it’s hard to read\u00a0this report \u00a0from the left leaning Guardian\u00a0\u00a0as much of anything but: Osama bin Laden pondered the merits of US television news channels as he considered how to extract the best propaganda benefit from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27725,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27724\/revisions\/27725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}