tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943895454360619148.post2355528787191059555..comments2023-05-16T17:08:05.562+03:00Comments on Confessions of a Vegetarian Shark: Jordan's Electronic Media: Free Speech or Tool for National SchismAmmarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669890793678305822noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943895454360619148.post-48308505752630442642009-06-13T04:37:14.901+03:002009-06-13T04:37:14.901+03:00While I agree with most of what you said, I disagr...While I agree with most of what you said, I disagree with the premise that anyone should be censored. Nahid is a racist, we all know that, but that doesn't mean he should be stripped from his right to free speech.Mohannedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16545486749453413835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943895454360619148.post-73958301816205099682009-06-13T12:47:03.851+03:002009-06-13T12:47:03.851+03:00Muhannad: I'm not advocating censorship of the...Muhannad: I'm not advocating censorship of the media, but rather trying to understand how we've got a healthy censorship machine, when it comes to creative works like books or films or plays, and then it disapears when it comes to stuff like this.<br><br>I'm not calling for silencing people like Hattar, but these views were given quite an elevated space to be expressed on those two particular platforms, despite the fact that he already has his own platform, and as i've mentioned in the post, what's interesting is that once people began answering his views in "counter articles", and exercising their own right to free speech, they were attacked for doing so by comments and believe it or not, one of the editors of ammon in a "counter-counter article", before having all articles removed for good.<br><br>My point is that, free speech is everyone's right, but we can't censor people and punish them if they write something that "damages" our relationship with a foreign country, even if that country is Israel, and then allow other people to play a divisive role within our own society.Ammarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669890793678305822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943895454360619148.post-61891637950860924112009-06-13T20:56:08.311+03:002009-06-13T20:56:08.311+03:00I think it is their own way of getting their messa...I think it is their own way of getting their message to the king..While many don't agree with what Nahid, Basil, and the rest of the Chorus advocate for you can't deny that thier views are widely accepted among east jordanian especially those who are coopted in one way or another..For example the army, the police, governmental jobs, etc are only ways of paying of east jordanians to buy their loyalty to the throne..What you see is only a warnning from those who are benefiting from the status quo to the decision maker..They Got the message just like they got it before..<br><br>I wouldn't describe it as shism but as Schizophrenia that was facilitated by our own version of the affirmative action..Mohannedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16545486749453413835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943895454360619148.post-75747875215456451142009-06-13T21:46:09.134+03:002009-06-13T21:46:09.134+03:00What message is that? either take more care of us ...What message is that? either take more care of us or we'll inflame the Jordanian/Palestinian issue?<br><br>I actually think that nahid's sudden recurrence isn't accidental, and I don't think that his own aim was to send the message on behalf of benefiting east bankers; as his own motives might and probably are the opposite, although I might agree with the premise of pressure from those who agree with him as described above.<br><br>Basil's role, on the other hand, lacked the professionalism of a journalist, when he defended nahid's views and attacked talab by stating historical precedence of people's existance in Jordan, even before the establishment of the Emirate, which takes us back to the idea of who was where when, an irrelevant point.<br><br>I actually believe that the timing and the persistence of nahid's articles on almost a weekly basis comes from outside Jordan, maybe inspired by Syria to engage the Jordanian government in an internal distraction to make it pay back for some Jordanian position that didn't go down well with the Syrians, in the regional, or maybe international arena, but that's just a theory.Ammarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669890793678305822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943895454360619148.post-33087073194724500722009-06-13T23:50:07.540+03:002009-06-13T23:50:07.540+03:00Nahid's Allegiance to Syria and the Baath part...Nahid's Allegiance to Syria and the Baath party is undesputable..His communist beliefs are also beyond obvious. I've heared many stories about Nahid..But the conclusion that I came to after reading for him for almost 2 years that He "fears" for the christian minority in Jordan and their demminshing numbers..So he is a combination of a Right wing racist, Hard core christian, Communist, and a Baathist..He suffers from an identity crisis and uses the Jo/Pal "issue" as a proxy for his mental problems..<br><br>The king caved in on many issues before, after pressure from who we usualy term as the "old Guard" with the help of our "media" and the hords of "journalists". On many issues the king was going in the right direction but then he either stopped or went in the exact opposite direction.The latest of those was the constitutional monarchy "debate" along with the regions fiasco..Mohannedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16545486749453413835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5943895454360619148.post-22285274781567960152009-06-14T00:33:50.355+03:002009-06-14T00:33:50.355+03:00It's interesting how this identity crisis he s...It's interesting how this identity crisis he suffers from plays well into the interest of a significant number of Jordanians, without having to cross paths with the original aim he intended, what's weird though, is that he's able to play on the east bank "cord" in his explicit threat of the Palestinian "presence" in Jordan with all the psycological warfare and neopolitique fashioned terms he uses to charm people into believing his high brow intellectualism.<br><br>The new guard also abused their close proximity to the king, and his dismissal of some couldn't simply be explained as caving in to pressure, as he's more than capable of protecting, as he did before, people who've been attacked in the public opinion, and those too, had their own hords of loyal journalsits and media outlets, so the problem isn't with the old or the new guards, it all goes down to the abuse of power by whomever is in power, old guard or new. <br><br>And the media in Jordan, especially the new emerging electronic type, always has an interest, as it either gains financially, or in political support, not to mention an interest in its own popularity, as we've seen in the past day or so, in terms of the number of visits made to read who wrote what, and who replied.Ammarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669890793678305822noreply@blogger.com