What AOL and Aljazeera have in Common

AOL must be the ISP of choice for anti-Bush, anti-US and Anti-Iraq war protesters. When AOL runs an online poll, you can count on 60% to 70% of respondents being anti-administration. In a recent poll 67% of AOL members felt Bush was responsible for high gasoline prices; 57% think that Bush takes too many vacations; and members overwhelmingly thinks Bolton is too nasty to be UN Ambassador.

In addition, AOL is blatantly bias on their news page. For example this morning three stories were featured; "NFL Brawl, Child Obesity and SOLDIER'S MOM PICKETS RANCH."

Other news outlets giving the story legs include the China Daily, The Iranian Quran News Agency; and the usual suspects, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, LA Times, NYT, CNN, Salon and our unbiased friends at Aljazeera.

Aljazeera Online covers four stories in their Global section - one story given(25%) prominence is, of course, protesters at President Bush's ranch - AOL gave the story 33% of their news page.

ABC features six news stories on their web page, one of which is the "protester" story. In a Google search and on their web page, I did not find this story on Fox.

Evidently Fox editors judged that there was other news, more important than another antiwar protest. But AOL has no compunction in publicizing those that would bring the US to its knees - as is the agenda of Aljazeera constituents. Witness the following Aljazeera report.

More US soldiers have died in Iraq since George Bush declared an end to the war on 1 May 2003 prompting the question: Will Iraq turn into a new Vietnam eventually bringing the US to its senses ... or perhaps to its knees?
Iraq's history, and along with it that of the Arab Muslim world, speaks of several similar encounters. In the past, enemies attacked from East and West before they were swallowed by the moving sands of the region, or forced to retreat, leaving behind a phoenix-like people who adore life and still accept to die for their freedom.
The escalating Iraqi resistance seems to be setting the stage for another act which might usher in a new Arab World or set the clock ticking for the end of yet another empire.

And this quote is from the English online version of Aljazeera - you can imagine the Arabic version.

Is there any question why President Bush's approval numbers are so low and why support for the Iraq war has waned? The anti-administration press is so pervasive it reaches in to our homes via what should be a fairly benign ISP web page. I wonder how many parents are not aware that their children are being overtly propagandized by AOL?