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Al Jaz English vs. Al Jaz
Interesting reaction to AJE from Jamal Dajani: The new channel’s editorial policy seems more restrained. When a 70-year-old resident died of his wounds after being hit in an Israeli attack on Gaza, the Arabic Al Jazeera reported that he was ‘martyred.’ At Al Jazeera English, however, he was simply ‘killed.’ Another major difference is the…
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Reuters Institute launch 2
No sign yet of a language guide to go alongside the ethics statement at Al Jazeera. But, searching their archive of print stories online, they have reported a suicide bombing at Netanya in Israel as a bomber has blown himself up – which to me implies incompetence rather than intentionality. In the same report they…
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Reuters Institute launch: Al Jazeera and the English language
So what if the picture is of the Radcliffe Camera, the Bod’s history reading room? Read on, there’s a scoop of sub-atomic, blogospheric size hidden in here… To the launch of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Al Jazeera DG Wadah Khanfar is on a panel with BBC Director of News Helen Boaden…
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Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko
On November 9th, Alexander Litvinenko was due to have taken part in a panel debate at City University to discuss the killing of reporter Anna Politkovskaya. Litvinenko was a friend of Politkovskaya’s. He couldn’t make it due to illness – an illness which is now being investigated as a poisoning. British politicians have been embarrassingly…