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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013
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Friday, February 15, 2013
THE DAILY CALLER: Aides to former Democratic Vice President Al Gore have failed to respond to a recent Al-Jazeera TV broadcast, in which a top imam affirmed the Death Penalty [sic] for anyone who quits Islam.
Gore sold his Current TV Network to Al-Jazeera, which now plans to extend its broadcast into the United States this summer, according to Ashok Sinha, vice president of corporate communications at Current TV/Al-Jazeera America.
Gore reportedly sold Current TV for $500 million and endorsed Al-Jazeera’s news programs.
Western critics of Islam highlighted a recent broadcast of the network’s regular “Shariah and Life” show, which has an estimated audience of 60 million viewers worldwide.
The show’s host is Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent Sunni Islamic cleric.
He declared that Islam’s mandated death-penalty for apostasy has kept Islam alive since the 1400s. “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn’t exist today,” Qaradawi said on the show.
Qaradawi cited specific verses and narrations by Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, and the recorded testimony of his companions, that mandate the death penalty for anyone who tries to leave Islam. » | Nicole Lafond | Tuesday, February 12, 2013
SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: After the Arab Spring: Al-Jazeera Losing Battle for Independence – For over a decade, the Arab television broadcaster Al-Jazeera was widely respected for providing an independent voice from the Middle East. Recently, however, several top journalists have left, saying the station has developed a clear political agenda. » | Alexander Kühn, Christoph Reuter and Gregor Peter Schmitz | Friday, February 15, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Der arabische Nachrichtensender al-Jazira hat den erfolglosen amerikanischen Fernsehkanal Current TV gekauft. Damit versucht al-Jazira, sich stärker in den USA zu positionieren.
Mit dem Kauf der amerikanischen Fernsehstation Current TV versucht der katarische Nachrichtensender al-Jazira, ein Standbein in den USA aufzubauen und auf dem amerikanischen Markt mit den grossen Sendern CNN und BBC World zu konkurrieren. Laut Reuters kostete der Kauf 500 Millionen Dollar. Ungefähr 60 Prozent der Programme sollen in den USA produziert werden, den Rest übernimmt al-Jazira in Katar.
Der künftige Sender mit dem Namen al-Jazira America wird voraussichtlich seine Sichtweise der internationalen Politik der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit zu vermitteln versuchen. Der Generaldirektor von al-Jazira, Ahmed at-Tani, wird in der Presse mit den Worten zitiert, man wolle einen zusätzlichen Beitrag an die amerikanischen Nachrichten leisten und die Geschichten erzählen, die andere vernachlässigten. » | Nina Fargahi | Montag, 14. Januar 2013
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
AL JAZEERA: Network says video showing shootings that left seven dead ins southern France did not meet its code of ethics.
Al Jazeera has said it will not air a video that it received in a mail, showing three shooting attacks in Toulose and Montauban in southern France this month.
The network on Tuesday said the video did not add any information that was not already in public domain. It also did not meet the television station's code of ethics for broadcast. » | Source: Al Jazeera | Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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REUTERS FRANCE: PARIS - Le Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel et le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Alain Juppé, ont appelé mardi la chaîne Al Djazira à ne pas diffuser les vidéos tournées par Mohamed Merah au cours de ses meurtres.
Une copie des images filmées lors de ses sept meurtres à Toulouse et Montauban par le tueur abattu jeudi par la police est parvenue au bureau parisien de la chaîne de télévision qatarie, qui n'a pas encore pris la décision de les diffuser ou non. » | Patrick Vignal et Gwenaëlle Barzic, édité par Yves Clarisse | Reuters | mardi 27 mars 2012
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SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Tiny Qatar Has Big Diplomatic Ambitions: With his wealth, diplomatic skills and Al-Jazeera television network, Qatar's Emir Hamad Al Thani has become one of the most important politicians in the Middle East. The tiny state is becoming a force to be reckoned with, but the emir's motives are obscure. » | Alexander Smoltczyk and Bernhard Zand | Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
In his 1998 work Dream Palace of the Arabs, Fouad Ajami wrote, "As the world batters the modern Arab inheritance, the rhetorical need for anti-Zionism grows. But there rises, too, the recognition that it is time for the imagination to steal away from Israel and to look at the Arab reality, to behold its own view of the kind of world the Arabs want for themselves." Whether Ajami realized it or not, these words offer an eerily prescient view--thirteen years ahead of time--of the dynamic behind the Arab Spring and its autumn and winter sequels. In country after country, Arab crowds have taken to the street for a cause more positive and all-embracing than anti-Zionism: the demand for an end to corrupt authoritarian regimes and for a greater say in their own future. What shape that future will take remains to be seen, and many basic questions have yet to be answered. Can democracy blossom overnight in societies that have always been dominated by oppressive force? If democracy does take root, can respect for minority rights survive the tyranny of a poor, ill-schooled and often intolerant majority? Would democratically elected demagogues pose even more of a threat to peace and stability in the Muslim-Arab world than old-line authoritarian regimes and monarchies with a selfish stake in maintaining the status quo and "keeping the lid on"?
Meanwhile, where can one turn for detailed, reliable coverage of what some now call the "Arab Awakening"? For millions of people around the world, including actual participants on the ground and in the streets of the Middle East, the single most important news source for the events still unfolding in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain is the English-language channel of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television-news network. Like it or not, it is no exaggeration to say that Al Jazeera has been the eyes and ears of this crucial news story. More often than not, Al Jazeera correspondents are the first on the scene, and Al Jazeera anchors and interviewers provide the most detailed follow-up, discussion and analysis of breaking events in the Arab world. » | Aram Bakshian Jr. | Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Seated behind a vast desk, surrounded by TV screens, deep leather sofas and a wall of global media awards, Wadah Khanfar always cut an impressive figure in his director-general's office at al-Jazeeraheadquarters in the Qatari capital, Doha.
But his career at the top of the most important news organisation in the Arab world ended on Tuesday when he was replaced by a member of the Qatari royal family. It was an abrupt and dramatic move at a critical time in the Middle East.
Khanfar, credited with revolutionising the Arab media landscape, said he was resigning after eight years that consolidated the satellite network's reputation and his own highly influential position.
The new boss is Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani, a little-known executive at Qatargas and a member of the fabulously wealthy Gulf country's ruling dynasty – pointing to a clear attempt to exercise greater control.
It is thought that Khanfar had become too independent a figure for the Qataris, and that he had come under pressure from them. Recently al-Jazeera has been accused of pulling its punches over the uprising in Bahrain, where Saudi Arabia dominates regional policy. Al-Jazeera's Lebanon chief, Ghassan Bin Jiddo, resigned in April, apparently in disagreement over coverage of some of the revolts.
But on Tuesday night Khanfar denied speculation that his departure was linked to outside pressure. He told the Guardian: "I have spent eight years with the network. We have been talking in this part of the world about change, about presidents who stay for decades in their posts. I thought maybe it is good to give an example as well, while the network is at the peak of its performance. It's the right moment." » | Ian Black, Middle East editor, and Luke Harding | Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Qatar's government has replaced Wadah Khanfar, the director-general of the al-Jazeera satellite TV network, with a member of its own royal family – a sudden and dramatic move at a time of unprecedented turmoil across the Middle East.
Khanfar, credited with revolutionising the Arab media landscape, announced that he was resigning after eight years that consolidated both the channel's reputation and his position as one of the most powerful figures in the region.
The new director-general is said to be Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani, an executive at Qatargas and a member of the country's ruling dynasty.
The Palestinian-born journalist said in a resignation letter posted – characteristically – on Twitter that his goal at the outset was "to establish al-Jazeera as a global media leader" and that "this target has been met".
Al-Jazeera, based in the Qatari capital Doha and owned by the state's emir, broke the mould of Arabic media organisations that were bankrolled by and subservient to governments or cowed by censors when it was set up in 1996.
Often technically brilliant and highly partisan, it has outperformed itself in this year of the Arab uprisings with the slogan – cleverly echoing the battle cry of revolutionary struggles – that "the coverage continues". » | Ian Black, Middle East Editor | Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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