Quds Press: Arabic TV Channels Said Expelled From Al-Fallujah for "Dishonest" Reports
Al-Fallujah, 29 October: Iraqi resistance men in Al-Fallujah city have driven correspondents of four Arab satellite channels out of the city because of what the resistance men described as the biased coverage of these channels. The city fighters asked correspondents of Al-Arabiya, MBC, LBC and the official Al-Iraqiyah Television, to leave the city.
Posted by Matthew Burton on October 29, 2004 at 05:45 PM in Journalist violence | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (112)
Washington Post on Alhurra
Va.-Based, U.S.-Financed Arabic Channel Finds Its Voice
"...Alhurra, a network with 150 reporters based in Springfield, is the U.S. government's largest and most expensive effort to sway foreign opinion over the airwaves since the creation of Voice of America in 1942." More
Posted by Matthew Burton on October 15, 2004 at 05:52 PM in Alhurra, Public diplomacy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (117)
Iraqi media body issues code of conduct, sanctions
From Baghdad's Al-Shira:
Muhammad Jasim Khudayr, member of the Higher Media Commission, has announced that the commission will start working within the coming few weeks and Ibrahim al-Janabi will most likely be selected as chairman.
In an interview with Al-Shira, to be published in full in the next issue, Khudayr revealed that the commission prepared a list of regulations to organize the work of the media called "Professional code document", which consists of nine points:
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Posted by Matthew Burton on October 9, 2004 at 05:46 PM in Higher Media Commission | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (101)
