[lbo-talk] FOX News broadcast in Iraq by US

[Brian O. Sheppard]

[Apparently, after several days of viewing Fox News broadcasts across
Iraq, Iraqis are already agitating for a new regime that will kick black
mothers off welfare and eliminate the 'double taxation' on investment. - Brian]

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U.S. Uses Iraqi TV to Send Its Message

By Mike Allen Washington Post
Staff Writer Friday, April 11, 2003;
Page A01

The Bush administration took over Iraqi state television yesterday, replacing tributes to Saddam
Hussein with conciliatory greetings from President Bush, the Pentagon and
British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

[...]

U.S. officials said that within days, they hope to open a second
television channel in Iraq featuring subtitled  versions of the three
major networks' evening newscasts, as well as PBS's "The NewsHour with
Jim Lehrer" and Fox News Channel's hour-long politics show, "Special
Report With Brit Hume."