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• Al-Jazeera in English? CNN in Arabic?.
• The past few months may have been rewarding, but they have not been easy for Al-Jazeera. ... On top of it all, viewers flooded the station's Doha headquarters with phone calls, faxes and e-mails, complaining that while they enjoyed watching Al-Jazeera, they couldn't understand a word. ...
• Mahmoud Tarabay, a journalism professor at the Lebanese University and the Lebanese American University, said the decisions by CNN and Al-Jazeera indicate that they have started considering "the other. ...
• Its Arabic online operation will no doubt compete with Al-Jazeera's site and other online Arabic news services, but a spokeswoman for CNN said competition had nothing to do with CNN launching CNN Arabic. ... 11 - and the possible threat of Arab news consumers going to Al-Jazeera instead of CNN - also did not play into the decision, insisted Seema Alibhai, press manager for CNN's Europe, Middle East and North Africa operation. ... " Al-Jazeera is eyeing the English-language market beyond the US with plans to start a daily English-language bulletin in the next two or three months, according to Omar Bec, head of news-gathering and operations for the station. ... In the opinion of media analyst Ali Abunimah, however, the internet would have been a better first priority for Al-Jazeera's operations, while CNN should have focused on getting its information out in Arabic through television.
• "On the other hand, in the US, probably very few non-Arab-Americans will receive Al-Jazeera by satellite. " Abunimah, a critic of anti-Arab bias in the US news media, said even if Al-Jazeera does only reach a few Americans through satellite television, the perspective offered will be significant.
• "The important thing about Al-Jazeera is that it is the first non-Western network to seriously challenge the Western monopoly on global news reporting, and therefore to provide, in my view, a much more inclusive perspective, which gives you everything you get on CNN plus everything you don't," he said. ... Tarabay was also critical of the CNN site, saying Al-Jazeera's content was "more rich than CNN Arabic. ...
• When asked why Al-Jazeera did not enter the English-language market sooner, Bec replied bluntly: "We need the manpower. ... "Al-Jazeera is still a drop in the bucket, or in the ocean, for that matter," she added. ...

• Transmissions of Al Jazeera fade away .
• Transmissions of news and other programmes, broadcast by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Television network, have begun to fade away from TV sets in Lahore, apparently as cable operators take it off the air. ...
• Hakim Khan, an operator who runs a small cable service in the Mozang area of Lahore, says he was visited by district administration officials, who told him "broadcasting Al Jazeera was illegal and that I should stop or I would receive a notice".
• In Islamabad, too, it is reported that the Al Jazeera network is being taken off the air by cable operators. ...
• There is speculation in the country that the situation could be linked to recent rumours that Osama bin Laden is getting set for an "especially dramatic" broadcast on Al Jazeera. ...
• While officials for Al Jazeera, contacted by e-mail in London, denied this, reports have continued to speculate that this could be the "grand finale" planned by Osama. ...
• "We really have no information, and neither do Al Jazeera officials based in Pakistan, but then the whole thing is probably a closely kept secret," noted a source at the information ministry. ...
• The possibility that this is a reason for new attempts to control Al Jazeera transmissions is being conceded by operators. ...
• The policy of Al Jazeera  has come under  criticism in the West, but won the channel publicity across the world. ...
• · Transmissions of Al Jazeera fade away.

• Journalists suspect US deliberately bombed Al-Jazeera .
• The US had scored a direct hit on the offices of the Qatar-based TV station Al-Jazeera, leading to speculation that the channel had been targeted deliberately because of its contacts with the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. ...
• Gowing's argument was that Al-Jazeera's only crime was that it was "bearing witness" to events that the US would rather it did not see. Indeed there is no clear evidence that Al-Jazeera directly supported the Taliban - simply that it enjoyed greater access than other stations. ...
• Certainly, Al-Jazeera reflects a certain cultural tradition: but only in the same way that CNN approaches stories from a western perspective. ...
• Gowing demanded that the Pentagon be called to account for the destruction of Al-Jazeera's Kabul office. ...
• Al-Jazeera is not an agent of a state, and few (except perhaps the US military) would claim that it is an agent of Osama. But the fact that Al-Jazeera has reported in such depth the other side of this conflict is troubling to the authorities. "Al-Jazeera has been providing some material that has been very uncomfortable," Gowing said at News World. ...
• Other news organizations, by treating Al-Jazeera in a semi-detached fashion, had not helped: at the start of the war the BBC had described it as a "pro-Taliban broadcaster", McCullagh said. ...
• Al-Jazeera certainly believes it was a target. ...
• On Monday, Al-Jazeera executives in Qatar called their correspondent in Kabul and told him to leave, because they feared for his safety after the Northern Alliance took over. ...
• US officials have criticized Al-Jazeera's coverage of the bombing campaign as inflammatory propaganda. ...
• The US would have known, therefore, that Al-Jazeera had ordered its Kabul correspondent to leave, but would not have realised he was still in the city. ...
• Speaking to the conference from the US military's central command centre in Florida, spokesman Colonel Brian Hoey denied that Al-Jazeera was a target. ...
• Col Hoey said the Pentagon did not have the location coordinates of the Al-Jazeera office in Kabul even though the broadcaster said it had passed them on, several times, via its partner CNN in Washington. ...

• Al-Jazeera TV faces ban for inciting hatred .
• Al-Jazeera TV faces ban for inciting hatred .
• AL-JAZEERA television could be banned from broadcasting in Britain if its transmission of Osama bin Laden's latest video statement is judged to incite racial or religious hatred.
• The Independent Television Commission is monitoring al-Jazeera's output and will today examine the content of bin Laden's weekend video, in which he urged Muslims to wage religious war on the "infidel". ...
• Al-Jazeera is licensed by the French broadcasting authorities, allowing it to screen its output anywhere in the European Union.
• The entire video, lasting several minutes, was shown on al-Jazeera. ...
• Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, has revealed in a parliamentary written answer that al-Jazeera's output is being monitored by the ITC to see if it breaches the EU Television Without Frontiers directive.
• Before this weekend's video broadcast the ITC's "monitoring of al-Jazeera has not led it to conclude that proscription would be justified". Sky said it was legally required to allow al-Jazeera to broadcast and had no power to control its output.
• Al-Jazeera in Arabic .

• Al-Jazeera journalist held at Guantanamo : Reporters Without Borders urge the US to break its silence Reporters Without Borders called today on US officials to urgently say why they are still holding Sami al-Haj, an assistant cameraman of the Qatar-based TV station Al-Jazeera, at the US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, nine months after his arrest. ...
• "It is now in their interest to break their silence in the case," said Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard, "Without questioning why he was arrested, we think this continued silence is especially unfortunate because it could be seen as an intention to harass Al-Jazeera, which has already been the target of US State Department pressure. ...
• Al-Haj, who is Sudanese, had been working for Al-Jazeera since last October as an assistant cameraman. ...
• Last October 3, US secretary of state Colin Powell asked Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, as Al-Jazeera's main shareholder, to see that the station changed its allegedly biased reporting of events. ...
• Al-Jazeera has several times broadcast video recordings of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden.

• NEWSROOM: Al Jazeera has announced plans to begin its English-language service next year.
• DOHA, QATAR – Coming to a screen near you: Al Jazeera in English. ...
• Since it began broadcasting in 1996, Al Jazeera has brought unprecedented Arabic-language journalistic scrutiny to the regimes of the Middle East. ...
• Headquartered in this small, wealthy Persian Gulf kingdom, Al Jazeera has won American praise for raising media standards in the Arab world, where virtually all news outlets operate under some form of government control. ... Rumsfeld scheduled another interview with the channel, but pulled out following a testy exchange with an Al Jazeera reporter at a press conference.
• Al Jazeera, says Kenton Keith, a former US ambassador to Qatar, "no more than other news organizations, has a slant. ... But the fact is that Al Jazeera has revolutionized media in the Middle East.
• "For the long-range importance of press freedom in the Middle East and the advantages that will ultimately have for the West, you have to be a supporter of Al Jazeera, even if you have to hold your nose sometimes. ...
• Oddly enough, Al Jazeera's journalists face severe restrictions in several Middle East countries that are considered allies of the US. Saudi Arabia, one of the US government's leading partners in the region, has never allowed Al Jazeera to open an office; Bahrain, where the US Navy's Fifth Fleet is based, has banned the network's journalists from visiting.
• Two other US allies - Jordan and Kuwait - have shut down Al Jazeera bureaus this year. "They hate Al Jazeera," says chief editor Ibrahim Hilal, "because they hate transparency. ...
• One explanation for the reluctance of these American allies to allow Al Jazeera to function is that these regimes are defensive about media coverage of their links to the US. ...
• "Al Jazeera has gone after everyone, irrespective of their politics. ...
• Syria - a country the US accuses of sponsoring terrorism - also has refused to let the network open an office, and Libya withdrew its ambassador from Qatar in last year out of pique with Al Jazeera, a step several Arab governments have taken at one time or another.
• On the other hand, Egypt, a leading US partner, allows Al Jazeera to operate with relative freedom.

• Al-Jazeera Kabul Office Destroyed by US Missile .
• DUBAI, United Arab Emirates –– The Kabul office of the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, which the United States has criticized for its coverage of the Afghan campaign, was destroyed early Tuesday by a U. ...
• The Taliban Ministry for the Suppression of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue was across the street from the Al-Jazeera office. ...
• Asked if he thought Al-Jazeera's office was deliberately targeted, al-Ali said, "They know where we are located and they know what we have in our office and we also did not get any warning. ...
• It could be difficult for Arab employees of al-Jazeera, including reporter Tasir Alouni, to move around in Kabul, where they might by mistaken for Arabs who came to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban.
• On Tuesday, one side of the house in which Al Jazeera's office was located was caved in, with twisted steel rods jutting out.
• Al-Jazeera has aired taped statements said to be made inside Afghanistan by bin Laden and his aides, and Alouni became familiar to Arab viewers around the world, providing live reports from Taliban-controlled areas barred to most Western reporters.
• American officials have criticized Al-Jazeera's coverage of the bombing campaign as inflammatory propaganda.
• On Tuesday, Al-Jazeera showed CNN footage from Kabul and live coverage Tuesday from its five-member crew in the Taliban's home base, the southern city of Kandahar. ...

• Al-Jazeera TV .
• Founded in 1996, and based in Qatar, the Al Jazeera news network is the fastest growing network among Arab communities and Arabic speaking people around the world. ... Al jazeera is not likely to critisize its own benifactor, the emir of Qatar and the government of Qatar.
• Programs in Al Jazeera are devoted to various topics with an emphasis on pan-Arabic issues such as the Palestinian / Israeli conflict, the war in Iraq. ...

• com) -- Satellite broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Centre launches in mid-February an estimated $200 million, 24-hour news channel in Arabic to compete with Al Jazeera, the Qatar-owned channel best known for airing inflammatory tapes from Osama bin Laden.

• The conference was the first gathering of these media professionals and decision makers from the Arab world and included representatives from Al Jazeera, the satellite news channel originating in Qatar; Arab Radio and Television; Nilesat Thematic Channel from Egypt; "The Morning World" Future Television from Lebanon as well as Palestinian and Israeli documentary filmmakers. ...
• One session featured talk show hosts Sami Haddad of Al Jazeera's "More Than One Opinion" and Hala Sarhan of the Arab Radio and Television network, both of whom have examined taboo subjects on their programs, including prostitution, impotence and religious fanaticism. ...

• If we use Afghanistan as an example, well we can see that both the Red Cross (a strategic military food dump) and Al Jazeera (a naughty and disobedient television channel) were high value targets, and this tells us something of what we can expect in Baghdad. ... Now, thankfully Al Jazeera was out of the office in Afghanistan when the place got smart bombed, and so one could expect that Al Jazeera won't be stupid enough to rent office space in Baghdad for this war, and should it be the case that Al Jazeera wants to be in Iraq for Hiroshima, well this leads one to ask if Al Jazeera in a van counts as a strategic target and my answer would be, well yes, of course they do. ...
• You would think that the Pentagon would want Al Jazeera in a van for this war, for as one of those Republicans behind the planning of the New American Century so arrogantly put it, not just Baghdad will be in shock and awe at what happens to Baghdad, but also all those troublesome Arabs around the Middle East. ... But let's just say that the planners of this operation are quite (arrogantly) sure that 48 Hiroshimas will be more than enough to cool down and tranquilize the entire Middle East, and they are in charge now and running things, so they must know what they are doing, right? So then perhaps this time the Pentagon should just leave Al Jazeera alone and not send one of those stealth planes or robot drone planes out to kill them, so they can help to shock and awe the whole Middle East into being quiet and obedient, and the Pentagon probably would, too, if it wasn't for the fact that Al Jazeera keeps showing pictures of babies with half their head blown off and all kinds of injuries and destruction. ...
• Therefore, in this case, the Pentagon won't rely on Al Jazeera to help to discipline the Middle East. ... If I was Al Jazeera I would under no circumstances drive around Iraq in a van with a decal on it, but rather I would change cars frequently and maybe catch lots of cabs, if they have any cabs left in Iraq, cabs possibly being high value military targets as well, since you don't want the Republican Guard hailing a taxi and getting a lift to the front. ...

• This Media Life Al Jazeera's Edge The American media has an almost fetishistic interest in Al Jazeera and its correspondents—not least of all because the Arabic broadcaster learned its best tricks from American TV. ...
• Everybody loves Al Jazeera.
• The Al Jazeera guys were definitely the BMOCs—Al Jazeera, I suppose, was Animal House to the Pentagon’s Deke—and everybody was dying to get near them.
• What’s more, Al Jazeera, being another of the weird creations of the weird state of Qatar, had the home-court advantage. ... military establishment, with everybody’s first reaction being Why are they here?—nearly the enemy, like Vichy practically—it soon became obvious that in many ways Al Jazeera was the host. It was their media nation we were invading (Al Jazeera correspondents and technicians were gracious translators and pronunciation tutors for the non-Arabic-speaking media).
• The Al Jazeera guys (and even sometimes women) were polyglot, urbane, sexy in a radical-chic sort of way. ...
• But most of all, of course, the media was in love with Al Jazeera because it was the hit station of the war.
• Indeed, while the results of Gulf II remain entirely uncertain, it is clear that, along with Saddam Hussein being over with, Al Jazeera is going to be very big—big to an extent and at a scale that is just dawning on the Al Jazeera folk themselves. The network is being transformed the way Gulf I transformed CNN—but then, CNN’s audience has rarely exceeded more than a few million, whereas Al Jazeera already speaks to a good 35 million every day.
• “I mean,” I said, “you could end up being Time Warner Al Jazeera. ...
• “Al Jazeera Time Warner,” said Omar.

• Osama In al-Jazeera Video?.

• March 23, 2003 -- 2:10 pm EST  We offer some of the images broadcast on Al Jazeera not in the spirit of glorifying war, but as an attempt to expose the coverup under way by the US corporate media regarding the real impact of this war. ...
• Al Jazeera: US Bombing Kills 50 in Basra.
• Al Jazeera is reporting tonight the death of at least 50 people in the Southern city of Basra. ...

• Al Jazeera: Hits, misses and ricochets.
• But once again, Qatari-based Al Jazeera has become a lightening rod for controversy. ...
• But the larger bone of contention between Saudi Arabia and Qatar is the controversial satellite news channel Al Jazeera. In September, Riyadh yanked its ambassador from Qatar, demanding an apology from Doha for Al Jazeera’s allegedly disrespectful coverage of the Saudi royal family. ...
• The so-called CNN of the Arab world, Al Jazeera wouldn’t exist if it were not for Qatar’s knack at taking advantage of Saudi shortcomings. ...
• Having grown from six to 24 hours worth of daily programming, Al Jazeera reaches more than 35 million Arabs around the world, including 150,000 in the United States. ...
• But aside from its rapid growth, Al Jazeera’s editorial edginess is its mark of distinction. In the world of straitjacketed Arab media, Al Jazeera has one of the only free hands. ...
• Much of investigative journalism is necessarily adversarial, and if the measure of success is the number of enemies, not friends, made, then Al Jazeera seems to be doing a good job. ...
• In November, Jordan closed Al Jazeera's news bureau in Amman after a Syrian commentator criticized Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel, describing Jordan as "an artificial entity" populated by "a bunch of Bedouins living in an arid desert". Kuwait also ordered Al Jazeera's bureau closed after an Islamic militant calling an Al Jazeera phone-in program from Europe suggested that Kuwait's ruler, Sheik Jaber al-Jaber al-Sabah, should be ousted for agreeing to extend the vote in Kuwaiti elections to women. ...
• Indeed, Al Jazeera gets hit from all sides. ... Iraq yanked the credentials of Al Jazeera's Baghdad correspondent for stories considered too pro-Western, while Kuwait recently blocked the station from using its satellite link because it considered the channel's coverage too pro-Iraq. ...
• Despite its popular success, Al Jazeera still struggles for advertisement revenue mostly because it has been shunned by most big multinational companies, which instead opt to advertise on the Middle East's tamer satellite channels. Many companies steer clear of Al Jazeera for fear of a backlash from powerful countries like Saudi Arabia. ...
• When Al Jazeera ran bin Laden interviews soon after September 11, Secretary of State Colin Powell denounced the station for having aired "vitriolic, irresponsible kinds of statements". Subsequently, Al Jazeera had Powell on the show, as well as Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and a slate of other British and American officials. Though most of the Western officials used the interviews to criticize Al Jazeera, their appearance helped lend the station a certain international credibility. ...

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