Time.com: Al Jeezra hires ex-marine

[Catchawave]

(sorry if this is a dupe, still catching up on email from the DC trip last weekend :patriot:)



http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1110008,00.html

Josh Rushing, former Marine captain and an accidental star of the movie Control Room made news of his own last week when he signed on to become the American face of the controversial Arab news network Al Jazeera-International. Top U.S. officials, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, have repeatedly complained that Al Jazeera's coverage is unfair or untrue. Yesterday, Rushing sat down with TIME for his first interview on why he took the job and what the new network will cover.

The 33-year old Rushing came to fame in Control Room, a movie critical of media coverage of the Iraq war as a military public affairs officer who increasingly questions how the war was being portrayed by the Pentagon. In the movie, Rushing is articulate and passionate in defending the troops and never directly criticizes the war. And his honesty draws viewers to his side—he describes his different reactions to seeing on Al Jazeera images of Iraqi casualties one evening and dead U.S. soldiers the next. "It upset me on a profound level that I wasn't bothered as much the night before," Rushing explains at one point in the movie. "It makes me hate war. But it doesn't make me believe we can live in a world without war yet." He admits—then and now—to being troubled by the "politicization" of the military command and what he describes as U.S. TV networks being "co-opted" by the Bush Administration.

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[cyberpj]

1. Wow. What a great outcome from a great documentary!

Atta Boy Josh! :patriot:

[Catchawave]

2. Oh goody, this is new to DU then?

I'm still marathon reading all the threads and I didn't remember this one. Let's kick it up and hopefully get it to the Greatest page. This is real news then :bounce:

[cyberpj]

3. Don't know if it's new to DU or not - I hadn't seen it. How about

reposting to GD with a new title that catches the real info:

Control Room Marine Joins Al Jazeera
(or something like that so people really get it).

That will get more attention and more kicks I think.

[Catchawave]

4. Do you have any idea how fast GD posts are falling

off the front page...whew. LOL. The Roberts confirmation isn't helping either today, lots of DU stream of consciousness posts reacting! OK, I'll try a repost....thanks

:hi:

[cyberpj]

5. Oops. UR right. I always forget about how fast that page moves.

Sometimes I think there should be indiv threads on BIG topics in GD.

Roberts
The protest
DeLay
and others.

It's way too hard to keep up there!

I'll watch for your repost and give you a kick/nom.

[Catchawave]

6. Thanks !

Add the Endangered Species act going on on Cspan right now too, oy, busy, busy day on DU. WE want a NO on this trick-fu*k change to letting builders encroach on protected lands. :hi:

Tap dancing as fast as I can today :)

[ElectroPrincess]

7. I second that thought

Josh is too cool - I viewed the documentary. :hi:

Semper Fi Josh!

+ God Bless the Truth! :patriot:

[goodhue]

8. kick

[BlueEyedSon]

9. *whew*, thought it would be Ritter.... nt

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

10. Excellent news - I just saw Control Room last week

I went into my local Blockbuster & they've gone US documentary crazy -- The Hunting of the President, Outfoxed, The Yes Men & The Corporation. I was seriously impressed.

[Uncle Joe]

11. From one former Marine to another, Semper Fi Josh. n/t