[Air-l] Perceptions: Where Al-Jazeera & Co. Are Coming From

[Karim R. Lakhani]

A very nice, thoughtful and disturbing commentary on Al-Jazeera and the 
rest of the Arab media in WashPost.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45183-2003Mar28.html

I am my self very conflicted about this type of coverage.  On the one 
hand I cringe at the sight of such carnage and blood and think that it 
is just "political porno."  However on the other hand I think that we 
should all be witnesses to the true cost of war on both sides.

War is *not* a video game and I now am reflecting about all the violent 
PS2 games I have played and how much desensitized I may have become 
after numerous hours of playing GTA3 and the many first person shooter 
games.

Kind of depressing.

K