Al-Jazeera at Fort Riley   January 16, 2007

Danny Schechter of media channel.org laments that too few foreign propaganda channels, such as Al-Jazeera English, were at the recently concluded National Conference for Media Reform. He asks, “Why no presence from the Al Jazeera English Channel that can’t get on the air in the US?” Maybe it’s because Al-Jazeera English correspondent Josh Rushing, a former Marine who looks like a PLO terrorist on his personal website, was busy elsewhere. He’s reportedly visiting Fort Riley, Kansas, doing a story about U.S. troops training Iraqis.

Can someone tell me why Al-Jazeera has been given access to that U.S. military base? What do mediachannel.org and the Free Press organizers of the media reform conference have in common? They’ve both been funded by George Soros.