New York Times Magazine – A fascinating look behind the scenes of the Al Arabiya news channel, and how it compares and contrasts to Al Jazeera.
“Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed is trying to turn Al Arabiya into a new kind of Arab news channel, with fewer hostage tapes and more moderate voices. But that’s hard to do when his employees aren’t sure they want to change, American troops occasionally arrest his reporters and his anchors get personalized death threats from Iraqi insurgents.”
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