Bringing Democracy to the Middle East: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Really funny article from MSN (although it's a Washington Post piece). Glad to know our foreign policy remains in good hands.
Definitely worth reading the whole piece.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25321273/
U.S. network falters in Mideast mission
Despite $350 million spent by taxpayers, network has failed to gain traction
One news anchor greeted the station's predominantly Muslim audience on Easter by declaring, "Jesus is risen today!" After al-Hurra covered a December 2006 Holocaust-denial conference in Iran and aired, unedited, an hour-long speech by the leader of Hezbollah, Congress convened hearings and threatened to cut the station's budget.
"Many people just didn't know how to do their job," said Yasser Thabet, a former senior editor at al-Hurra. "If some problem happened on the air, people would just joke with each other, saying, 'Well, nobody watches us anyway.' It was very self-defeating."