There will be those who will immediately dismiss what is being asserted by Rageh Omaar because he works for Al Jareeza - but this man, and what he has to say, cannot be so easily ignored.
As The Independent reports:
"In the eyes of Rageh Omaar, Western news organisations are perpetrating a "fraud" on their viewers with their misleading coverage of the war in Iraq, the conflict in which he established himself as an internationally-recognised journalist.
Omaar is outspoken in voicing his frustrations, and his words help to explain his recent career-path, which has taken him from being the flak-jacketed golden boy of the BBC to a presenter for Al Jazeera who is also writing a deeply personal book about the experiences of living as a Muslim in contemporary Britain.
He won admiration for his cool-headed dispatches from Baghdad during the aerial bombardments of the first days of the invasion of Iraq, and was nicknamed The Scud Stud by the New York Post, but suffered a whispering campaign by British Government officials that his work was unduly influenced by Iraqi information ministers."
Read the full article, here, and ponder whether the media, certainly in Australia, is providing you with a true, unvarnished "picture" of what is happening in Iraq.
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