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America's Media War

Just in case you thought the Pakistani electronic media was unique in its bittter, on-screen, infighting , you might want to check out yesterday's flap between Fox News and CNN over reporting from Libya . Here's what Fox News said about an officially-sponsored trip to view the damage to one of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi 's compounds, caused by the US/UK Tomahawk missile attacks. Having not actually got the footage that other news outlets managed to get, they accused the other journalists of allowing themselves to be used as "human shields" by the Libyan regime to prevent more attacks. Here's how CNN correspondent Nic Robertson responded to those claims on Wolf Blitzer 's programme: Personally, I find Robertson's indignation that Western journalists could sometimes lie, have personal agendas, cover up for their professional failures and promote propagandistic drivel a bit... how shall I put it delicately?... naive. And to top it all off, we'...

Map of the Day

Wow. Wow. Wow. The interwebs have been abuzz with the following image from that epitome of insightful coverage, Fox News . As they say at Fox News, 'Egypt, Iraq, same difference, it's the bleeding Middle East fer Chrissake!' Okay, so we know that this image is actually from two years ago . Oh, it's actually from a real broadcast by Fox News, don't get us wrong. Just that it wasn't repeated during the current Egypt crisis. But as we like to say at Cafe Pyala, 'Two years ago, now, same difference, it's bleeding Fox News FFS!'