Dear All,
We would like to announce our resignation from Fox News in Amman. Although we never actually worked for your organization, we helped for the past three years in facilitating your work in the Middle East. We base our decision on moral issues. We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that. Not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House, and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism. You have crossed all borders and red lines.
An Arab mother cries over the death of her child very much like an American and Israeli mother. Arab blood is not cheap, and we are not barbarians. You ought to be more responsible and have more decency when you take one side against the other. You have a role to play and a responsibility to shoulder for the sake of your very naive viewers. Throughout the three years we worked with you, and helped you, we thought you would develop a degree of respect [for] people in this part of the world. But the disdain and blatant one-sided coverage of all Mideast conflicts only highlights your total lack of humanity and bias toward Israel.
Your lack of professionalism has made you a [source] of ridicule throughout the world. Your inexperienced anchors with their racist comments are not only a shameful scar on the American Media, they simply represent state run Television networks in countries you despise in the Middle East. Finally, our decision again is based on moral and professional basis and from now on we will no longer help in any Fox related matters.
Serene Sabbagh
Jomana Karadsheh
Via: [Angry Arab]
Wow! These two journalists are making a very forceful statement. I doubt this will have any actual impact on Fox’s coverage but one can hope.
UPDATE: The media professional web resource Media Bistro has picked up the story, reporting that:
"Sabbagh appeared on FNC, including The O’Reilly Factor, last November after the Jordanian hotel blasts. This April blog entry on FOXNews.com identifies Karadsheh as a "Jordanian producer for Fox." Update: 6:56pm: "Karadsheh has been Fox’s producer inside the Saddam trial," a tipster adds. Karadsheh has also worked for CNN, as recently as last week in Baghdad."
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“How about my new term, tommish israelism idiotism”
Nahhh….too many -isms for a single term. 😉
To everyone except tommy
if she wants to ask questions ask the right ones. Tommy 3ogla is a man by the way.
Il ove how those stupid idiots here start throwing new terms in, Islamism Nazism Facism, thats a new movement eh?
How about my new term, tommish israelism idiotism
Liquid,
Lets see now, Russia and China don’t recognize Hizbollah as terrorists? Have they ever been attacked by hezbollah? When was China considered free?
Do some independent research, read a freaking book, open your mind, quit believing everything someone spoon feeds you, and make a decision on your own. Every side doles out propaganda. The truth lies somewhere in the middle of all the BS.
Do you have some truth you want to shed here? Or are you just bubbling up your own propaganda?
Hezbollah is Iran’s bitch. They have one objective – kill innocent civilians and claim Allah told them to.
Islam is being castrated by an element that seeks to destroy the rest of the world (and the free world at that) for their own 7th century style enlightenment. And I think we can shoot terrorists until we’re blue in the face – but until the 21st century Islamic Muslims decide that enough is enough, we’ll just keep shooting.
You may respond by suggesting that Israel is killing women and children. Yes – it’s a war. And Hezbollah, being the pussies they are, use women and children to protect them. This is a war that Israel did not want nor did they start. That Hezbollah got more than they planned for is poor planning on their part. Lebanon has suffered. Israel has suffered. Iran still sits there calling the shots. When is Islam going to respond and save their religion?
There is a scary train of thought going around in some circles that suggest that Islam is dangerous and should be outlawed. I have never thought Islam was dangerous. But I do think they are IN danger.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
– Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)
Who in the Arab world will dare speak out now against the rise of Radical Islamic Nazism and Fascism, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda? Who will speak out while someone is left to speak out?
To everyone else (excluding 3ogla, of course),
I await the evidence for the “Hitler’s mother was a Jew” assertion. Maybe 3ogla has it mistaken; maybe she meant that the doctor who unsuccessfully treated Klara Polzl(Hitler’s mother) for cancer was a Jew. That would be a true statement. As for Klara, she was a rather staunch Roman Catholic, as you might expect from a rural Austrian woman; she had no known Jewish ancestry.
However, I do have a question for you, whats your problem
I think somebody needs to inform 3ogla that if she isn’t speaking to me, she cannot ask me any questions.
Give it up man, you are such a bullshiter
Yeah, I’m a “bullshiter,” and Hitler’s mother was a Jew. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Tommy
I’m not gonna argue with you about Hitler’s mother, you can go find out for yourself.
However, I do have a question for you, whats your problem, I see two sides to your flags, an Israeli side and an American side, I think you need to decide which you are, as there is a big question mark on your loyalty here.
Next Tommy will be trying to convince the world that the US is part of Israel.
Tommy, we will challenge you on the blogs, on the streets of Jerusalem, on the streets of Beirut, on the streets of Baghdad, you are hateful person and you will never win, your violence and hate will never win, peace and justice will prevail at the end as it always does. Give it up man, you are such a bullshiter
Crash,
Why do you attack semantics and a minor error without reading the post.
Your whole argument is effectively based on semantics. Everyone recognizes that Hezbollah engages in terrorism and that some members of its leadership are considered wanted terrorists by multiple countries. I doubt there are any real arguments behind closed doors among world leaders as to whether or not Hezbollah is a terrorist organization – it is. The fact that they aren’t on an official list is your whole frickin’ argument.
You make an argument based off of what are essentially semantic claims and then cry foul when somebody calls you on your own semantics.
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
That is all I’m going to say about it. If you want to respond, you’ve got the last word. I’m tired of the issue.
To everyone else (excluding 3ogla, of course),
Hitler’s mother was absolutely not Jewish. How absurd. There have been rumors over the years that Hitler’s paternal grandfather might have been Jewish. These rumors have been shown to be extremely unlikely. There has never been any serious claim that Hitler’s mother was Jewish. Next 3ogla will be trying to convince people the sky isn’t blue, it’s yellow.
tommy
don’t talk to me ok, you are full of it and I don’t reply to you so don’t reply to me
Skye
Yes Hitlers mother was Jewish. In Judaism you follow your mother. So ok fine, Hitler was half Jewish.
OMG I meant the IDF, not the IDG. I guess I will feel the wrath of the Tommy Semantic Fascist Police.