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Al Jazeera English: an email exchange
I wrote an anniversary review of Al Jazeera English recently, pointing out the dilemma of running a globally “progressive-minded” news channel on behalf of a despotic regime. Here is an email exchange with someone at Al Jazeera English in Doha, responding to that piece: …I am a tad disappointed with your recent Press Gazette article…
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Shoot up a TV news channel
If you have played Call of Duty 4, you may have come across the scene where soldiers shoot their way round an Al Jazeera-lookalike TV station. Now it’s on YouTube. It is only a game, and I’m probably terribly old-fashioned, but it makes me feel a little uncomfortable.
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Review: Al Jazeera English – one year on
Here’s a piece I wrote for Press Gazette on Al Jazeera English, one year on. In the gardens of Versailles you can visit a charming monument to France’s conservative, construction-crazed 18th-century monarchy. It’s the Petit Hameau, an idealised village built at the whim of Marie Antoinette as a way of “connecting” with the great unwashed.…
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Al Jazeera back in Saudi?
Interesting post suggesting that Al Jazeera may be back in Saudi Arabia. The Jeddah summit between Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz resulted in a deal, according to an article in Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida: Saudi Arabia would return its ambassador to Qatar. There has been no Saudi…