BBC Media Audit...from 2003
For what it's worth, we've dug up an old study from the BBC World Service Trust: an eight city report on the "Current State of Broadcast Media in Iraq." It's from June, 2003.
Posted by Matthew Burton on May 25, 2005 at 11:26 PM in Media landscape | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (317)
NY Times's Guide to Arab Media
In the February 6 Week In Review section of the New York Times, Hassan Fattah presents a guide to Arab television and print media outlets. The article gets at the multiplicity of voices in the Middle East and differences between them, rather than reducing Arab media as "Al Jazeera and other media outlets ...", which it has done in the past.
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Beirut paper assesses proliferation, quality of new Iraqi media
Text of report by Mustafa Kamil entitled "Analysis from Baghdad of the new Iraqi media: Savage freedom and uncensored chaos" published by Lebanese newspaper Al-Nahar web site on 26 September:
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When the US occupation began, the Iraqi media found itself living in a new unfamiliar era and went through a series of profound changes that left numerous effects on it and on its Iraqi target audience, which was deeply shocked by those changes.
The new era's media demonstrated several fine qualities but also showed numerous morbid signs. Among the fine qualities were the openness to the world and the use of modern media tools in addition to a certain latitude that some persons are now describing as freedom; Others see it as chaos, something similar to what the famous Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa called savage freedom. It is largely a reckless, irresponsible freedom.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on September 26, 2004 at 10:52 AM in Media landscape | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (33)
Post-Saddam Media Flourishes, Not Without Controversy
IPS-Inter Press Service September 17, 2004, Friday
By Peyman Pejman
BAGHDAD - Since the fall of Saddam Hussein and his regime last year, one of the clearest signs that a new Iraq has emerged is the flourishing media business.
But their coverage, and that of international Arabic-language satellite channels such as Al-Arabiye and Al-Jazeera, has been subject to much debate. U. S. and many Iraqi officials say the coverage has been biased and has provoked violence.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on September 17, 2004 at 11:08 AM in Al Arabiya, Al-Sabah, Aljazeera, Media landscape | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (195)
Beirut's Al-Safir on TV and radio landscapes
It has become common to launch a new television or radio station beamed to Iraqis every week, and so it is difficult to work out how many there are. However, despite the proliferation of stations, Iraqis still prefer satellite channels, which rank first in terms of the number of viewers, with some exceptions here and there.
Along with Al-Iraqiyah Channel, which is not very popular among Iraqis despite its excellent programme production, particularly the political programmes (five each week), Al-Sharqiyah channel, which is owned by the well-known media mogul Sa'd al-Bazzaz, was launched. Iraqis jokingly call this channel "Al-Ba'thiyah", although its viewers are increasing in number owing to its focus on satirical programmes that make fun of public and political life in Iraq. As for the newscasts, they are unreliable, owing to their repeated mistakes.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on August 4, 2004 at 02:17 PM in Media landscape, New television, Radio | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (124)
