This is simple, if they suppor the war or not most Americans want to see their culture dominate or “guide” the Islamic world to some extent, this is the nature of the anarchy of civilizations. The MSM first evolved in the West and therefore reflected the values of the US, UK and EU. Japan emerged but radical cultural differences combined with close business ties ment that that the MSM in Japan and US had nothing to fight about and no shared language to fight over.

But the Saddam execution was a boundry object that was originally seen different by both cultures. Watching Fox News, always eye opening and depressing, the night of th execution you could see how the video they had was editted and commented to construct the concept of Justice done. Frankly most Americans had little reason to want to know that this had been a disgrace and that the name of Sadr, a man who has had hundreds of Americans killed, was chanted during the execution. It was more than most yanks could take.

But Arab Sunnis saw the execution very different. It is proof of US domination of thier history and Shia expansion with US weapons in to Iraq. Al Jazerra wanted to construct something very different, a tragedy of US domination, a pharse and insult, an illegal execution which would speed up the US retreat from from Iraq.

Who was right or wrong? There ofcourse is not final reality, only evidence, evidence is media and media can be viral. The MSM presented its story with peices of media presented as evidence, including comments from people who were there (utter shit), Al Jazerra in this case had a video which could not exist if the US MSM and States take on the story was true.

YouTube was secondary. Though now Americans know that what the MSM told them was false, they really didn’t care about Saddam to start with and nothing about Iraq has been changed. If Americans still believed in the war in Iraq the video could as easily be undermined by bloggers, who would have presented endless arguements that the audio was tampered with or validations of the justice of the act.

The war in Iraq was launched based on lies despite millions of bloggers and a global internet.

Power still uses the Internet like it uses MSM. In this case the public has turned against the war, the execution did not work because Americans want out of Iraq. 3 years ago the YouTube video would have been seen as prooof of how just the invasion was.

Everything is read, all meaning is constructed. Web2.0 expands the creation of media and its distribution, but does nothing in itself to change the power that governs reading.

Much in my current life-flow has to do with initiative and taking control/responsibility of me, myself and I.

I see and feel it as a natural part of the development of my being, which in a way has been slowing down a bit over the last years. Not…

What YouTube can do is deconstruct MSM messages, and even other blogger messages. The State wanted to turn this in to some great event, but the video deconstrcuted the execution by showing what it was, revenge by one group of tyrannts who kill American troops against another.

This is nothing new, the state used to execute people in public all the time and they were like this, during the French terror. Only the state we live in has lost the power to control by horror, it needs the media to construct reality, and the masses need the MSM at the end of the day to provide context for short YouTube videos and blogs.

Again Web2.0 thinking is a bit too simplistic