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In March of 2003
— on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq —
Michael Collins Piper, the author of The New Jerusalem,
was in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), as the invited guest of the distinguished Zayed Centre
for Coordination and Follow-Up, the official think tank of
the League of Arab States. Piper’s lecture, on the topic
of American media bias in favor of Israel, received highly
favorable news coverage in the Arabic and English-language
press in the Middle East (above). In August of 2004, Piper
traveled to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, where he
spoke before numerous audiences of industrialists, intellectuals,
attorneys, journalists, diplomats and others, and received
similar, straightforward and honest coverage in the local
media (below). In stark contrast, however, Piper has been
viciously attacked in major American media outlets in his
native land. This is no surprise, since Piper — a media
critic for the independent American Free Press (AFP)
newspaper — is an outspoken advocate of measures to
curtial the increasing concentration of ownership of the media
in the hands of a select few families and financial interests. |
