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Kirsten
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Share your views on Media!
October 19, 2007 - 02:57 PM
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Media coverage of the Middle East is clearly flawed. How have language, government, media sensationalism and selective media coverage impacted the image of the Middle East? What needs to be done to improve this? Are rules changing the media and is new media (blogging, YouTube, text messaging, etc.) changing the rules?
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Ibrahim Mothana
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Re: Share your views on Media!
October 28, 2007 - 05:35 AM
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Arab media: introduction Overview
NEWSPAPERS:
The press can be divided into three categories: government-owned or semi-official press, newspapers published by political organizations, and those that are privately owned. Very few of the privately-owned newspapers can be considered editorially independent; they are often owned by wealthy individuals who have political aspirations or seek of wield influence. With a few exceptions, Arab journalism tend to be uninspired and follows tired conventions. This is partly the result of direct censorship and/or licensing systems and restrictive press laws.
BROADCASTING:
Until the 1990s almost all television channels in the Arab countries were government owned and rigidly controlled. These channels still exist but the situation began to change in the 1990s with the spread of satellite television. Privately owned and non-governmental channels introduced livelier programmes aimed at a pan-Arab audience and also adopted a more professional approach to news and current affairs.
INTERNET:
The ability of the internet to provide uncontrolled flows of information across national boundaries was viewed as an alarming development by some Arab governments. Several of them - including Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen - restrict access to certain websites (though there are well-established ways of circumventing the censorship). For several years it was very difficult to produce web pages in Arabic, which meant that initially internet use was confined to the education elite who could read European languages. This has gradually changed, though internet use is still less than in many other parts of the world.
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