----- Forwarded by MeiWu/UMAC on 03/28/03 12:30 PM ----- Jan Servaes <freenet002@pi.be> To: ECCR Mailing list <eccr@listserv.vub.ac.be> Sent by: cc: owner-eccr@listser Subject: [eccr] US and Europe see different wars v.vub.ac.be 03/26/03 05:42 AM US and Europe see different wars -------------------------------- American audiences are seeing and reading about a different war than the rest of the world. The news coverage in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, reflects and defines the widening perception gap about the motives for this war. Americans, meanwhile, are hearing commentary on military strategy and the human interest angles on soldier life in the desert. Some analysts say that because press ownership is less concentrated in Europe than in the US, the European media are providing more perspectives than either the Arab or American outlets. In Frankfurt, for example, readers have access to 16 different German-language newspapers - many of which present different vantage points, which makes for a more lively and varied debate. European journalists also seem to ask different, more skeptical, questions about the war, often being the ones at White House and Pentagon press conferences to ask whether the invasion of Iraq has turned up any of the weapons of mass destruction that were used to justify the invasion - even as their American counterparts repeatedly focus on such questions as whether Saddam Hussein is alive or dead. Media watchers say the European press has tended to be more balanced than the US media in dealing with the war, in part because Europe is so much closer to the Muslim world. Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0325/p01s04-woiq.html - Christian Science Monitor ------------------------- Israel censors news sites ------------------------- Israel's News and Media Censorship Office has warned all online publishers not to print any home security details during the war on Iraq. In what is thought to be a first, Israel's chief military censor has apparently written a letter telling the web magazine Scoops Forum that it must not publish any details of missile landing locations, missile types, any cabinet discussions relating to the war, or any information on Israeli army operations in any sector. Ironically, web publishers can circumvent all attempts at monitoring by using services such as anonymizer.com to publish sites through servers in other countries. Brigadier General Rachel Dolev's letter said: "Given the current security situation, you are reminded that it is required to submit [for the Censor's review] all materials that could pose a threat to the security of the State of Israel and its residents." Source: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story603.html - Journalism.co.uk ---------------- ECCR-Mailing list --- To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@listserv.vub.ac.be with in the body of the message (NOT in the subject): unsubscribe eccr --- ECCR - European Consortium for Communications Research Secretariat: P.O. Box 106, B-1210 Brussels 21, Belgium Tel.: +32-2-412 42 78/47 Fax.: +32-2-412 42 00 Email: freenet002@pi.be or Rico.Lie@pi.be URL: http://www.eccr.info ----------------