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[Mills Chapman]

Hello folks. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cyprus Mail is American-funded, but does anyone know the specifics on this, which can be backed up with good sources?? (sources that one can testify on under oath) Feel free to pm me on this in case the truth is too sensitive for a forum.

Also, what other daily English online newspapers are there for Cyprus? I like to read the Cyprus Mail because each day there are some new editorials and factual stories on the Cyprus Problem, and the layout makes it easy for me to quickly scan the Problem-related stories and skip everything else. As I can't read Greek or Turkish, I'm restricted to English-language papers.

With all due respect to Sarah Fenwick and her site, http://www.reportfromcyprus.com/ , I'm particularly interested in papers that already have a sizable audience.

[Piratis]

Mills, if Americans wanted to fund the Cyprus Mail do you think they would send a check from the White House to them with the signature of Bush?

3 questions:
1) Do US/UK use propaganda as part of their foreign policy?
2) Do US/UK have strategic interests in Cyprus?
3) Which newspapers are aligned with the US/UK interests?

I personally don't know if they receive money from abroad or not, but I think it is very probable.

When USSR was alive and well it also helped the communists in Cyprus. The US/UK also had and continue to have their own people in Cyprus/Greece/Turkey etc serving their own interests. There is nothing surprising in this.

[Bananiot]

Its the ambient atmosphere Mills. Piratis is a good pupil of his master.

[andri_cy]

omg its the CIA!

[cypezokyli]

they are american payed for the following reason :

they have a different opinion from our own. if people have a different opinion from the "absolute right" one that means it is bc they have personal interests. as bananiot said there is a whole research (and real research not progoverment mudthrowing) showing how this "being payed by the americans" was created and unfortunately is being shared by the society
no different than mMCarthisism

i cannot say that i agree with everything that is written in the cyprus mail , but so long there is no evidence from that i like to see it as a different opinion and as such judge it.

[reportfromcyprus]

I don't know of any other daily online publications issued from Cyprus, you could check out reporter.gr, they have Cyprus related news, they are published from Greece as far as I understand.

There's a Turkish-Cypriot online paper called cyprusmirror.com, I think it's daily. (looks like the bbc.com layout to me)

[reportfromcyprus]

What I meant was "daily English-language online publications"

[Piratis]

they are american payed for the following reason :

they have a different opinion from our own.

No. They don't just have a different opinion. Their opinion is almost totally aligned with the UK/US policies for Cyprus.

If you want great examples of mud throwing go read what Bananiot writes about Papadopoulos. (99% of his posts)

When those that serve foreign interests throw so much mud on our democratically elected president and the majority of the population they expect us to stay silent without responding to them?

You are free to say that Cyprus mail is a good newspaper, and we are free to say that it is a bunch of crap serving foreign interests. Whats your problem with freedom of speech?

If you want to change the way that freedom of speech works and we would be allowed to say only what is proven in courts then no problem. But Bananiot and co will have to follow the same rules then. You can't have your unlimited freedom of speech and then when we use our freedom of speech accuse us of MCarthisism.

[reportfromcyprus]

What I meant was "it looks like the cnn.com layout to me" not the bbc.com one.

[Kifeas]

Hello folks. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cyprus Mail is American-funded, but does anyone know the specifics on this, which can be backed up with good sources?? (sources that one can testify on under oath) Feel free to pm me on this in case the truth is too sensitive for a forum.

Also, what other daily English online newspapers are there for Cyprus? I like to read the Cyprus Mail because each day there are some new editorials and factual stories on the Cyprus Problem, and the layout makes it easy for me to quickly scan the Problem-related stories and skip everything else. As I can't read Greek or Turkish, I'm restricted to English-language papers.

With all due respect to Sarah Fenwick and her site, http://www.reportfromcyprus.com/ , I'm particularly interested in papers that already have a sizable audience.

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/

It is a weekly one but you are going to have a more balanced and objective account on what is going on.

Cyprus Mail is indeed suspected by a large number of people to be pro-British propaganda geared, simply because it supports the Anglo-American perspective and views on Cyprus and is engaged in a relentless anti-RoC government and anti-G/C propaganda war. They see absolutely no good in the RoC government under Papadopoulos, even though more than 70% of the G/C public steadily supports their policies for 3 years now (including that on the Cyprus problem,) and all they do is to basically try to belittle, ridicule, scoff and distort the president’s positions and policies in the eyes of the T/C and the entire international community outside Cyprus that basically and predominately constitute their audience (readers,) since the vast majority of the G/C public do not anyway read their news from an English language newspaper but rather mainly from the Greek language press in Cyprus.

In a nutshell, they daily inflict a huge damage to the cause and policies of the official G/C positions, especially in relation to the Cyprus problem, and they seriously undermine the need for informing the international public opinion, foreign governments and diplomats that read it, of what the G/C views are in relation to the Cyprus problem, specially after the rejection of the Annan plan.

If it is indeed a fact that they get “sponsored” from outside, do not expect to ever be able to see actual invoices and receipts of the money they get, simply because this “kind of business” is not done in this way.