Media Views

Flush with the successful censorship of its own media and the media in other countries, it went a step further by accidentally bombing Al Jazeera's bureau in Kabul, and later, during the Iraq invasion, accidentally bombing their bureaus in Basra and Baghdad, accidentally killing one of their journalists, before eventually throwing the news organization out of the country. Several Al Jazeera journalists have been arrested, tortured or killed by American forces. Indeed since the invasion, Americans have killed and arrested dozens of Arab reporters working for various news organizations.... The Bush administration scored its most recent victory over the "independent" media when it bullied Newsweek into retracting its Koran-defiling story.