{"id":69,"date":"2006-11-20T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-11-20T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T22:15:00","slug":"reuters-institute-launch-al-jazeera-and-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/11\/reuters-institute-launch-al-jazeera-and-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters Institute launch: Al Jazeera and the English language"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So what if the picture is of the Radcliffe Camera<\/b>, the Bod’s history reading room? Read on, there’s a scoop<\/i> of sub-atomic, blogospheric size hidden in here…<\/p>\n

To the launch of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera<\/i> DG Wadah Khanfar<\/b> is on a panel with BBC Director of News Helen Boaden<\/b> and Washington Post<\/i> Exec Ed Len Downie<\/b>. The event is chaired by Timothy Garton Ash<\/b> who confusingly, for fans of 70s toga-soap I Claudius<\/i>,* combines the vocal mannerisms of Derek Jacobi’s emperor with the appearance of an emaciated Brian Blessed (Augustus<\/i>).<\/p>\n

I want to ask a question, but unfortunately I’m invisible to TGA<\/b>, whose antennae are a little more attuned to the establishment.<\/p>\n

So here’s the background to my question. Just recently, Al Jazeera English<\/i> MD Nigel Parsons<\/b> co-wrote a piece for the Indy<\/a>. Here’s the bit that caught my eye:<\/p>\n

I spend a lot of time with Wadah Khanfar, my opposite number at the Arabic language service. We are working on a common code of ethics and practice. One issue that has come up is that of language. Will we, for instance, use the phrase “suicide bomber”<\/i>? Al Jazeera tends not to. In Arabic the word suicide carries with it a moral judgement that it does not in English. The phrase they use, however, translates as something close to martyr<\/i>, and we can’t use that.<\/b> [my italics<\/i>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting. Khanfar’s the boss now, not the ‘opposite number.’ Anyway, I wanted to ask – What ARE you going to call suicide bombers? One AJE<\/b>er told me they still hadn’t agreed it and couldn’t tell me (!)…but (sub-atomic scoop fanfare<\/i>) the details of their editorial linguistic conundrums would be published tomorrow (i.e. in a couple of hours from this post) on their website. So look out for them (end of fanfare<\/i>). Thank goodness they haven’t had to report on any ‘suicide bombings’ since going on air…<\/p>\n

Other highlights:<\/p>\n

*Khanfar reminded everyone that Al Jaz had actually provided Israel with an editorial platform in the Middle East.
*Helen Boaden tipped her hat to FNC<\/b>, in a reversal of Roger Mosey’s position.
*Len Downie admitted that no-one could tell him what to put in the paper – after a keynote speech welcoming the advice of academics! (But we knew what he meant…)
*John Lloyd, just being there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/b>But the evening was about the Reuters Institute. Good luck to it, and all who sail in it.<\/p>\n\n

*Yes, Robert Graves etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50,81],"tags":[64,139,65,78],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","category-media","tag-al-jazeera","tag-al-jazeera-english","tag-fox-news","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}