Control Room Documentary an Eye Opener!

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I call it true journalism for several reason, one of them being that Al-Jazeera network is the first `international` Arab news network that was created in 1996 and that too by a few BBC reporters and correspondents. I mentioned in the article that- `` the director has also mixed small chunks of fiction in a way that reminded me that there can not be truly unbiased films once someone picks up a camera. `` So there goes the point of you not thoroughly reading what the article says and simply skeptically analyzing it. Apart from that, wiseguyin, what you wrote was what a secular country needs, and you did scrutinize the muslims as being people of a diffferent CULT. There is a difference between `cults`, `sects` and religions. You simply bashed up the entire muslim umma by proclaiming the muslims to be the ones who pick up swords against the world by implying the following:``Any attack by any mlusim species or country on any secular country will be considered as an attack on all humans. Response will be disproportionate and amplified.`` You gave twelve points on what secular countries should be doing and in that you eloquently slammed the muslims. So here is what I say, I DO NOT GET YOUR POINT!!!

Control Room shows you what the Arab network is all about. I have kept this post as impartial as possible. Yet to some degree I percieve that either you have not seen the documentary, or if you have you did not notice how the network opertates. Farenheit 9/11, got to everyone, because Micheal Moore took a very clever two pronged stance while making his documentary, one of ridiculing the Bush regime and the second one showing its audience a serious side to what the Bush-Blair pair are upto. Why is it that there were no London bombings, or 9/11`s or the Iraq and Afghanistan before the war mongerer better known as Bush won the presidential election? Control Room is a low budget documentary, but it is definitely more powerful than Farenheit 9/11.

> Jehane Noujaim, director of Control Room, has eloquently cut her film to the finest
> benefit of the Arab network as the voice of the Arab browbeaten as well as the
> oppressed and to the apparent discomfort of the ‘occupying’ forces; the US....

The same pathetic palliatives vomitted again & again & again ....

arabs .... browbeaten ... oppressed ...
US ... occupying force ....

> When Iraq finally falls, she shows the Al-Jazeera team’s shaken disbelief as they try to
> make their emotional response correspond to what they must rationally have expected
> all along.

I just pointed out what you wrote ... need i say more ?

If you guys are soooo oppressed ... a lil more oppression wud not hurt, i guess.

Secular countries shud do the following:
1- ban new mosques. (the saudi arab style for others)
2- ban muslim proselytisation (like all h0m0 islamus countries have for others). This will be
punishable by death.
3- demolish mosques - these are nothing but dens of immoral activities. like preaching
paed0philic messages.
4- freedom to kill any mooselimb who criticises any human saint. (aka wajib-ul-qatl). no
human will be prosecuted for such a crime action.
5- confiscate & burn the satanic verses at all ports of entry and any place within secular
countries.
6. conversions to this cult will be a punishable offence. Punishable by stoning to death.
7. reverts from this cult to the human race will be given full media coverage as well as a
good support system to begin their life anew.
8. Schools should modify their curriculum to reflect how the human race is superior to this
cult.
9. Any attack by any mlusim species or country on any secular country will be considered
as an attack on all humans. Response will be disproportionate and amplified.
10. The h0m0 islamus who are currently residing in secular countries need to be deported
to any muslmi country of thier choice.
11. By law - no muslim can be a citizen of any secular country ...
12. On marriage amongst these two species, the mooselim will need to become human.

get the point ????

ummm ... i hope u get the idea , right ?

I am extremely sorry to have missed out on referencing the article, it completely slipped my mind.
I shall keep that in mind next time. Thank you for your suggestion.

Zara Hafeez

one of the main things that hit me about the documentary was how it showed that US forces bombed and destroyed an Al Jazeera office which was no where close to any targets.

as for al jazeera, its actually not as bad as i originally thought. after having read them for the past few months, ive seen that they dont just talk about american injustice but are also steadfastly against the saudi regime and ``SOME`` terrorist organizations

much better journalism than what the middle east has ever had

As a student of Media Communication and Journalism, this kind of plagiarism doesnt do u any good. I would have expected you to be confident enough of doing a good job of reviewing this documentary without having to `lift` from other sources. I am sure you will keep this in mind Zara. Wishing you the best.

Ms.Hafeez
Paragraphs four & five in your article are lifted almost ad verbatim from George Wu`s review of the film at culturevulture.net. You should have mentioned this.

I don`t agree with your conclusion. The film has the Arab journalists readily admitting their biases. They themselves don`t claim to be clear and balanced. That is hardly true journalism, it`s just biased reporting from a different angle.

what is this movie, the control room about.......? could you simple explain that first.....btw the review was good , though a little more detail would have been appreciated......