Did Iranian President Hassan Rowhani Use the Term “Holocaust” In His CNN Interview

CNN Denies Mistranslating Rowhani Interview -- Washington Free Beacon

Iranian state-run media said Rowhani did not refer to 'Holocaust' in interview

CNN said it did not mistranslate Iranian President Hassan Rowhani’s comments about the Holocaust to make him sound more moderate during a Tuesday interview with Christiane Amanpour, contradicting a report that ran in Iran’s state-run news agency.

According to the government-run Fars News service, CNN mistranslated Rowhani’s statements and downplayed his suggestion that the Holocaust was not an historical fact.

CNN told the Washington Free Beacon that the translator who worked on the interview was actually hired by the Iranian government.

According to the Fars News translation of Rowhani’s CNN interview, the Iranian president did not use the term “Holocaust,” instead referring to it as “historical events.” He also did not use the term “reprehensible,” according to Fars News.

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More News On Iranian Claims That CNN Mistranslated Iranian President Rowhani's Interview

Exclusive: CNN Fabricates Iranian President's Remarks about Holocaust -- FARS News Agency
Iran state-media: CNN ‘fabricated’ Rouhani translation on Holocaust -- Washington Times
Iranian News Agency Accuses CNN Of Fabricating Translation In Which President Rouhani Acknowledged The Holocaust -- Business Insider
Iran claims CNN fabricated Rouhani's Holocaust remarks -- Politico
CNN rebuts accusations of Iranian news agency -- Erik Wemple, Washington Post

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Why Did The New York Times Avoid The Guardian Story On Israel And The N.S.A. Working Together

The headquarters of the New York Times is pictured on 8th Avenue in New York April 30, 2008. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

Guardian Story On Israel And N.S.A. Is Not ‘Surprising’ Enough to Cover -- Margaret Sullivan, New York Times

Many Times readers have been writing to me for several days about a story The Guardian broke last week, describing how the United States routinely shares with Israel intelligence information that the National Security Agency gathers on American citizens.

The story was published five days ago, and by late last week I was already hearing from dozens of readers. One of them was Phyllida Paterson, of Silver Spring, Md., who wrote:

48 hours and there is still nothing in The Times about how the N.S.A. shares U.S. citizens’ raw communications data with Israel. This explosive story ought to be front-page news. Word is spreading and The Times is losing credibility by the hour. Friends of mine who never before believed that newspapers suppressed news are shocked by the evidence before them. Do you really want to push more readers into the arms of The Guardian?

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Update #1: Margaret Sullivan Criticizes New York Times Over NSA, Israel Story -- Huffington Post
Update #2: Not News: The U.S. and Israel Cooperate -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary
Update #3: All The News That Is ‘significant or surprising’: NYT editor defends ignoring NSA-Israel collaboration (Updated) -- Mondoweiss

My Comment: The New York Times makes the case for me on why I am always reading multiple sources and posting these sources in this blog. Sticking to one source for your news is a guarantee that (sometimes) you will miss the news and information that is important to you.

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Filtering The News For An American Audience

Time Magazine Hides Putin’s Success From US Voters -- Time

Time magazine’s cover for its Sept. 16 issue features a picture of contented-looking Russian president Vladimir Putin, complete with a black background and a damning caption that declares “America’s weak and waffling, Russia’s rich and resurgent.”

But Time’s editors are shielding Americans from the demoralizing picture, putting a cheerful, sky-blue photo on the covers of magazines distributed in the United States.

“It’s time to pay college athletes,” says the chirpy, non-political U.S. cover, which shows a ball-carrying football player with arm outstretched.

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My Comment: What!!!!!! Bias in the media .... say it ain't so.

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Charlie Rose Discusses His Trip And Exclusive Interview With Syrian President Assad

Checkpoints, Armed Guards, Bullet-Proof Vests For Charlie Rose On The Road To Damascus -- TV Newser

Charlie Rose was back in the anchor chair of “CBS This Morning” today talking about how he landed that wide-ranging interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. As we reported yesterday, Rose and CBS News chairman Jeff Fager, Rose’s producer for the interview, traveled to the region late last week and secured the interview Sunday morning.

“I must say that Jeff and I found them, once we got there, they didn’t make any effort to change content, there was nothing off the record. There was no sense of, you can’t talk about this. None. I said, “This is going to be a very tough interview.” And they said “The president would like you to be that way.”

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President Obama Faces A Hostile Press Corps In The Arab Media

U.S. President Barack Obama gestures while talking in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, April 30, 2013. REUTERS/Larry Downing

Arab Press Pans President Obama on Syria -- Politico

If President Barack Obama isn’t happy with his press coverage in the United States, he ought to take a look at how he’s being portrayed in the Arab media.

As Obama steps up his push for congressional authorization for a strike on Syria, the president is coming under withering criticism by opinion leaders throughout the Middle East, according to a review by POLITICO and experts of Arabic- and English-language media in the region.

The Obama bashing can be categorized in several ways: Those who charge the president’s needlessly dragging his feet; conspiracy theorists who argue it’s all a plot to boost Israel; and others who claim that any military operation in Syria is motivated only by the U.S.’s interest in dominating the region.

The increasingly unfavorable coverage Obama’s receiving in the Arab world - even come from the press in countries that support U.S. intervention in Syria - is doing harm to his image and influence, as well as further diminishing how America is perceived in the region, experts say. It hits especially hard coming at a time when Obama is looking anywhere he can, at home and abroad, to find allies for his plan to punish the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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My Comment: The press in Europe are also giving President Obama a hard time .... as well as Asia. I live in Canada, and the press here has been ambivalent .... but criticism is starting to seep in. As for the U.S. media .... from my vantage point in Canada .... I find the mainstream media continuing to be supportive of the President.

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Is The Press Being Misleading On The NSA Story?

A statement by Hong Kong online media platform ''In Media Hong Kong'' supporting Edward Snowden, a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), is seen alongside a petition ''Pardon Edward Snowden'' at the White House website, on a computer screen in Hong Kong in this June 12, 2013 illustration photo. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

The Press Is Misleading You About The NSA -- Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post

Pundits on the right and left are certain the government has been lying to us, repeatedly, about the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs. In fact, it’s the media that repeatedly have gotten seemingly blockbuster stories wrong.

We’ve seen the pattern now: A big story suggesting the administration is reading your e-mails. Then come the facts. Well, not really reading them. And there’s court oversight. Oh, yes, and Congress has been informed. Oh, and the NSA self-monitors.

The cycle repeats itself, apparently, each time Edward Snowden coughs up another fur ball of half-digested facts.

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My Comment: There is a reason on why The Guardian .... a British publication .... is the go-to place for NSA stories .... and not the U.S. media.

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Is President Obama Acting In A Manner That Is Worthy Of A Nobel Peace Prize Winner?

AP Reporter: Are Obama’s Policies In Syria And Egypt Worthy Of A Nobel Peace Prize Winner? -- Washington Free Beacon

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki curtly replied Thursday to Associated Press reporter Matt Lee that the policies of the Obama administration regarding Egypt and Syria were in fact worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

LEE: All right. And then my last one — and I will stop, I promise, after this — do you think or is the administration confident that the steps — that the policy that you have pursued thus far in Egypt and also in Syria are worthy of a president who not so long ago won the Nobel peace prize?

PSAKI: Yes, Matt.

LEE: You do. OK.

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My Comment: The AP is the world's largest news wire service .... they have also been consistently neutral to supportive in their news coverage of President Obama. This is why their line of questioning today was a surprise to me .... I guess after almost five years the "honeymoon period" is now starting to unravel for the AP.

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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden: Media 'Abdicated' Role Post-9/11

Snowden: NSA Targeted Journalists Critical Of Government After 9/11 -- The Hill

Leaker Edward Snowden accused the National Security Agency of targeting reporters who wrote critically about the government after the 9/11 attacks and warned it was “unforgivably reckless” for journalists to use unencrypted email messages when discussing sensitive matters.

Snowden said in an interview with the New York Times Magazine published Tuesday that he came to trust Laura Poitras, the documentary filmmaker who, along with Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, helped report his disclosure of secret surveillance programs, because she herself had been targeted by the NSA.

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Updated: Edward Snowden To NY Times: Media 'Abdicated' Role Post-9/11 -- Huffington Post

My Comment: The above video is a must see. As to what is my take on the media failing in it`s duty to cover important stories .... I say definitely .... and the consumer is starting to figure that out to.

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