USG muscles Arab TV stations to present its view
esse
180eriksson at telia.com
Wed Oct 3 06:49:40 PDT 2001
"All we are asking is for balanced reporting,"
U.S. quote of the day?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Khoder bin Hakkin" <hakkin at sarin.com>
To: <cypherpunks at lne.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:30 PM
Subject: USG muscles Arab TV stations to present its view
> Note that the offending Arab TV station has a "tendency to run
> interviews with analysts who argued U.S. foreign
> policy had brought about the recent attacks on the
> World Trade Center and the Pentagon."
>
>
> As if there were another reason. Oh sorry, its about "democracy",
> right.
>
>
> US to Qatar: rein in Al-Jazeera
> Tuesday, 2 October 2001 20:14 (ET)
>
> http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=226316
>
> US to Qatar: rein in Al-Jazeera
> By ELI J. LAKE
>
> WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Embassy in Doha has filed a
> formal
> complaint to the Qatari government about the partly state-owned
> Al-Jazeera
> satellite network's coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes on New
> York
> and the Pentagon, State Department officials told United Press
> International
> Tuesday.
>
> Last week, U.S. Ambassador to Qatar, Maureen Quinn, delivered a
> demarche
> from Washington regarding Al-Jazeera's broadcasts to Qatari Foreign
> Minister
> Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani.
>
> Quinn asked the Qataris to investigate what the United States says is
> the
> station's tendency to run interviews with analysts who argued U.S.
> foreign
> policy had brought about the recent attacks on the World Trade Center
> and
> the Pentagon. The ambassador also expressed concern about the station's
>
> repeated airing of an interview with Osama bin Laden, the man the
> United
> States says is behind the Sept. 11 attacks, State Department sources
> said.
>
> "They are running this thing four times a day," one State Department
> official told UPI. "It's like giving him a free forum to justify his
> beliefs
> with no filter."
>
> "All we are asking is for balanced reporting," another official said
> Tuesday. "They were airing interviews from the right of center and the
> far
> right. There are plenty of other people who speak Arabic who have
> condemned
> these attacks."
>
> Although Al-Jazeera is partly owned by the Qatari government, its
> editorial policy is independent, an anomaly in the state-run media
> climate
> of the Middle East. It is also the largest Arabic television news
> channel in
> the world. According to the station's Washington bureau, its programs
> are
> watched by 40 million viewers regularly.
> <snip>
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