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March 29, 2009
Accolades for the Arab Lobby
For those who believe that 'the Jews control the media,' John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt among them, Melanie Phillips has some interesting news:
Arab Media Watch lifts a curtain to show us the real lobby at work. It boasts:
Some 200 guests gathered at Kensington's Royal Garden Hotel on 21 March 2009 to attend Arab Media Watch’s fifth annual fundraising dinner, and to mark its ninth anniversary. Among the guests were almost three-dozen senior journalists from the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Financial Times, Reuters, Daily Mail, Independent, Asharq Al Awsat, Al Quds Al Arabi, Al Hayat and others.
The warm, positive responses from the media representatives were overwhelming, Phillips reports. Among them:
‘Thank you…We did enjoy it.’ - Financial Times / Reuters
‘Many thanks for inviting me. I enjoyed it.’ - The Independent
‘I enjoyed the programme and the company of your nice guests.’ - BBC
‘Thank you very much for the invitation. I wish you all the success you deserve.’ - BBC
‘Thank you very much for the invitation. I really enjoyed the annual dinner. It was refreshing. It was, as before, perfectly organised…’ – BBC
‘Thank you so much for your generous invitation…The event was wonderful and the presentation was flawless…Best wishes for continued success…’ – BBC.
Posted by TS at March 29, 2009 02:40 AM
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There is so much that is suspicious in the wording, perhaps written by someone for whom English is a 2nd language, that I wonder about the authenticity.
The anonymous responses were so bland. The expressions were so lacking in the style, verve, vocabulary we would expect from professional wordmeisters.
‘Thank you…We did enjoy it.’ - Financial Times / Reuters Not we enjoyed it?
‘I enjoyed the programme and the company of your nice guests.’ - BBC NICE My 3rd grade English teacher would have rapped me over the knuckles for that one.
It was refreshing. It was, as before, perfectly organised…’ – BBC A 'refreshing' fundraiser?
‘Thank you so much for your generous invitation…T – BBC. Unless the 'fund raisers' paid the journos to come, why was this generous? Attending these events was part of their job, wasn't it?
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at March 29, 2009 06:41 PM
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