{"id":847,"date":"2008-03-11T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2008-03-11T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T08:11:00","slug":"different-reactions-to-bbc-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/03\/different-reactions-to-bbc-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Different reactions to BBC Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span> couple of perspectives on the launch of <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">BBC Arabic<\/span> from different parts of the Middle East.<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><br \/>The <a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gulfnews.com\/opinion\/editorial_opinion\/world\/10196446.html\">Gulfnews<\/a> thinks the Beeb won\u2019t have enough passion: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regional viewers are more accustomed to Al Jazeera\u2019s confrontational style, which expertly raises emotions &#8211; a safe, measured BBC approach is probably unlikely to move the masses. BBC Arabic, for all its good intentions, could even face a wider audience suspicious of a new British channel that will inevitably be seen by many to be linked to the occupation of Iraq, and the US propaganda machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Jerusalem Post<\/span> sees the launch influencing Al-Jazeera\u2019s coverage of Israel: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al-Jazeera is also set to face more competition in the Middle East TV market, with the scheduled start next week of the BBCs\u2019 new highly-touted Arabic news channel.<\/p>\n<p>Being caught in a ratings war with serious rivals is perhaps another reason the Qatari station has ramped up its attacks on Israeli policy in recent weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of perspectives on the launch of BBC Arabic from different parts of the Middle East.The Gulfnews thinks the Beeb won\u2019t have enough passion: Regional viewers are more accustomed to Al Jazeera\u2019s confrontational style, which expertly raises emotions &#8211; a safe, measured BBC approach is probably unlikely to move the masses. BBC Arabic, for [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}