{"id":862,"date":"2004-05-03T21:08:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T04:08:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-03T21:08:35","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T04:08:35","slug":"more-cpa-censorship-alienates-iraqis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/03\/more-cpa-censorship-alienates-iraqis\/","title":{"rendered":"More CPA censorship alienates Iraqis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The editor and entire staff of a Pentagon-created, US funded Iraqi newspaper has quit in disgust <\/a>saying they’re sick of American interference in their choice of subject matter. They say they’re starting their own newspaper, called Al-Sabah Al-Jedid<\/em> (The New Morning). <\/p>\n

On a front-page editorial of the Al-Sabah newspaper, editor-in-chief Ismail Zayer said he and his staff were “celebrating the end of a nightmare we have suffered from for months. . . . We want independence. They (the Americans) refuse.”
\n[…]
\n“We had a project to create a free media in Iraq,” Zayer said of the founding of Al-Sabah. “They are trying to control us. We are being suffocated.”<\/p>\n

Zayer accused Harris of interfering in the paper’s workings, including trying to stop some of its advertising and speaking to reporters about articles.<\/p>\n

Among the ads that he said Harris tried to prevent was one from a new political organization called the Iraqi Republican Group. The ad ran in Monday’s issue \u2014 the last put together by Zayer’s staff.<\/p>\n

It complained of the “griefs of occupation” and called on Iraqi elite to rally “to preserve our nation from destruction.”<\/p>\n

Zayer said he was told by Harris that the ad was “too political.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Iraqis are so lucky the Americans invaded so they could impart their superior Western values like Freedom of Speech and democracy and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The editor and entire staff of a Pentagon-created, US funded Iraqi newspaper has quit in disgust saying they’re sick of American interference in their choice of subject matter. They say they’re starting their own newspaper, called Al-Sabah Al-Jedid (The New Morning). On a front-page editorial of the Al-Sabah newspaper, editor-in-chief Ismail Zayer said he and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}