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The Guardian: Fox News "literally – working for al-Qaida and Isis’s media arm" [View all]
The Guardian has posted an article about FOX New's embedding ISIS's latest snuff film, unedited on their webpage:
Fox News has chosen to embed on its website the video of Islamic State burning a hostage to death, a move which makes them the only US media organization to broadcast the video in full.
The extremely graphic 22-minute video shows Muadh al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot, being set on fire and burned to death in a cage. Fox News did not post the videos of the killings of previous Isis hostages, and no other media company has hosted this video.
The extremely graphic 22-minute video shows Muadh al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot, being set on fire and burned to death in a cage. Fox News did not post the videos of the killings of previous Isis hostages, and no other media company has hosted this video.
The Guardian however, notes that ISIS supporters are quite thankful for FOX's hosting help:
On Twitter, accounts associated with Isis supporters are sharing the video via the links to the Fox News site. One account, which regularly posts pro-Isis slogans and updates about Islamic State ‘victories’ in battle, tweeted boastfully that “Whoever is looking for the al-Furqan version (of the video), here it is and it cannot be deleted because it is on an American network.” Al-Furqan is Isis’ media outlet.
And Terrorism experts seem to agree:
Rick Nelson, a senior associate in homeland security and terrorism at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that posting the video actually empowers Isis.
... “These groups need a platform, and this gives them a platform,” he added.
Malcolm Nance, the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideology thinktank and an expert on counter-terrorism and radical extremism told the Guardian that by posting the video Fox News was propagating “exactly what Isis wants to propagate”.
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“(Fox News) are literally – literally – working for al-Qaida and Isis’s media arm,” he added.
... “These groups need a platform, and this gives them a platform,” he added.
Malcolm Nance, the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideology thinktank and an expert on counter-terrorism and radical extremism told the Guardian that by posting the video Fox News was propagating “exactly what Isis wants to propagate”.
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“(Fox News) are literally – literally – working for al-Qaida and Isis’s media arm,” he added.
“They might as well start sending them royalty checks.”
the rest:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/04/fox-news-shows-isis-video-jordan-pilothttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/05/1362462/-The-Guardian-Fox-News-literally-working-for-al-Qaida-and-Isis-s-media-arm
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