Comments on: Angry Memri http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/ An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner... Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:36:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: ella http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/#comment-8615 ella Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:43:12 +0000 http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/#comment-8615 Kamangir Mr Whitaker wrote many pieces on ME, in one of his articles he wrote: <i>Gandhi was a Hindu but readily incorporated other ideas into his philosophy. Like many Muslims today, he would undoubtedly have appreciated jihad, self-sacrifice and martyrdom as concepts, though not the methods that often accompany them.</i> It, and other pieces like that make me think that although MEMRI might be selective, but so is Mr. Whitaker. Kamangir

Mr Whitaker wrote many pieces on ME, in one of his articles he wrote:
Gandhi was a Hindu but readily incorporated other ideas into his philosophy. Like many Muslims today, he would undoubtedly have appreciated jihad, self-sacrifice and martyrdom as concepts, though not the methods that often accompany them.
It, and other pieces like that make me think that although MEMRI might be selective, but so is Mr. Whitaker.

]]> By: a from berlin http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/#comment-8614 a from berlin Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:27:36 +0000 http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/#comment-8614 Hi, to be honest the only thing I can do is guessing. If I would open up an information center, claiming to provide "objective" information, I probably would not be too happy, if other people would accuse me to be biased and imply that I am having other goals than just providing this objective information. (If you put all these above mentioned pieces of information together, you could easily get the impression, that someone tries knowingly and purposefully to use biased information to influence the political forming of opinion - which would be pretty much the exact opposite of what MEMRI claims to do). As I said, I would not like it either if someone tried to accuse me of that, or even only hinds at it. But I probably would rather try to proof those people wrong than to shut them up, in order to maintain my credibility - if I can proof it. And sometimes people get angry, if you hit a nerve. But it's only a guess.. Hi,
to be honest the only thing I can do is guessing. If I would open up an information center, claiming to provide “objective” information, I probably would not be too happy, if other people would accuse me to be biased and imply that I am having other goals than just providing this objective information. (If you put all these above mentioned pieces of information together, you could easily get the impression, that someone tries knowingly and purposefully to use biased information to influence the political forming of opinion - which would be pretty much the exact opposite of what MEMRI claims to do). As I said, I would not like it either if someone tried to accuse me of that, or even only hinds at it. But I probably would rather try to proof those people wrong than to shut them up, in order to maintain my credibility - if I can proof it. And sometimes people get angry, if you hit a nerve. But it’s only a guess..

]]> By: kamangir http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/#comment-8613 kamangir Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:09:07 +0000 http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/#comment-8613 A, Thanks for the information. Do you have any idea why Memri is so hostile? A,
Thanks for the information. Do you have any idea why Memri is so hostile?

]]> By: a from berlin http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/#comment-8612 a from berlin Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:24:04 +0000 http://kamangir.net/2006/10/30/angry-memri/#comment-8612 To be honest, I have the same feeling as Whitaker, because I know of a very similar story. I am volonteering with a magazine here in Germany, called INAMO (translated: information project of the Near and Middle East). INAMO was founded to give a platform to journalists from the ME (whole ME), to tell their side of the story, besides MSM (to put it very shortly). I find it a magazine with often very interesting background information that I did not have before. INAMO had also published information about MEMRI, which is along the lines of what Whitaker said. MEMRI tried to sue them for it. Following that, some minor things had to be changed in the article, but the central points and questions still remain and could not be proven to be wrong, as e.g. the central claim of selective information. I found that very interesting, too. To be honest, I have the same feeling as Whitaker, because I know of a very similar story. I am volonteering with a magazine here in Germany, called INAMO (translated: information project of the Near and Middle East). INAMO was founded to give a platform to journalists from the ME (whole ME), to tell their side of the story, besides MSM (to put it very shortly). I find it a magazine with often very interesting background information that I did not have before.
INAMO had also published information about MEMRI, which is along the lines of what Whitaker said. MEMRI tried to sue them for it. Following that, some minor things had to be changed in the article, but the central points and questions still remain and could not be proven to be wrong, as e.g. the central claim of selective information. I found that very interesting, too.

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