Talk:Assyrian International News Agency

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Here's an excerpt from one of their "news" reports: Obama and Islam: Considering the long history of Islamic extremism, the militancy of Islamic religious texts, and the justification that such texts provide for modern jihadist movements, the president's fawning rhetoric may be confused for mere ignorance. But as David Horowitz and Robert Spencer forcefully argue in their new pamphlet, "Obama and Islam," Obama's Islamophilic outreach represents something far more disturbing than naïveté: a conscious effort to appease Islamic supremacism in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, and an energetic willingness to pander to the Islamic world in general. How many news organizations refer to Obama's "fawning rhetoric" as a fact? Maybe Fox News? Even for that one you'd be hard to pressed to find "news" like this. And I haven't even bothered with AINA's editorials section, although they have that as well. This is precisely the issue with writng an aritcle with no independent coverage: you either have to take the primary sources at face value, or engage in WP:OR to write anything beyond a claque. Tijfo098 (talk) 07:32, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely. This organization has been severely criticized by members of the Assyrian and Chaldean communities. [1] Writer and activist David Chibo wrote an article that implied AINA was guilty of extreme exaggerations in lead up to the Iraq invasion, which was published in Foreign Policy Magazine, which was later pulled. Here's the link to the original story [2], and here's the text [3]. Not sure what to make of this, but the fact that AINA's reports only portray Muslims attacking Christians, and never seem to highlight Muslims who stand up for Christians, makes me suspect intentional bias. The fact that they are routinely cited by the Islamophobia industry only underscores that suspicion.[4]Jemiljan (talk) 21:56, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, an article written by an AINA regular (David Chibo in this case) being retracted from a more serious publication like Foreign Policy Journal (which not the same as Foreign Policy magazine, by the way) with the note "This article has been removed due to a violation of journalistic standards" somehow doesn't surprise me. But by itself that incident is not enough to add it to this brief overview/stub. Journalistic errors happen all the time, and it would be wp:undue for us to include that issue unless it's reported in some well-known third-party source (not forums, etc.) Tijfo098 (talk) 17:24, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

The SPLC report however is from a well-known and reliable source so I've added a bit of that to the article. Tijfo098 (talk) 17:37, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect attribution of founders

The article states that AINA, meaning the Assyrian International News Agency was founded by award-winning photojournalists Reza Deghati and Manoocher Deghati, but I believe that this incorrect. The brothers have founded a non-profit by that name, meaning "mirror" in Persian, and for which there is a very different, separate WP entry. See AINA (organization).Jemiljan (talk) 21:56, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for figuring that out. It looks like the issue has been fixed in the meantime. Tijfo098 (talk) 17:39, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Adam Becker source

What exactly is unreliable about this source? He clearly discusses AINA in the context of it being a nationalist news organization. Silverseren^C 23:10, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Did someone imply that it was unreliable? Seems like a thorough analysis by a reliable source to me.Jemiljan (talk) 01:05, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, User:Keepa wasn't happy with that, but eventually he gave up trying to whitewash this article. Tijfo098 (talk) 17:17, 29 September 2012 (UTC)