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| No. 11, Fall/Winter
2003 |
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| ARAB
GULF, ARAB SATELLITES |
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Shaykh
Abdallah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Abu Dhabi
TV
CNBC Arabiya
Al Jazeera
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The
Arab Media Summit:
"Arabsats? What Arabsats?"
asked Humphrey Davies at the third annual Arab Media
Summit held in Dubai October 7-8. Though their names were
on everyone's lips, the Arab satellite channels were strangely
thin on the ground at the Middle East's premier media gathering-and
this, even though Shaykh Abdallah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
and CNN's Chris Cramer, in their Speeches
to the Opening Session, raised issues that touch on
the Arabsats directly.
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On
the Margins of the Summit:
A hunt
through the corridors of the summit did yield interviews with
Ali Al-Ahmed and Nart Bouran
of Abu Dhabi TV, Jihad
Khazen of LBC/Al Hayat, and Riz
Khan, sometime CNN anchor. We also took a copy
of Danny Schechter's article "Media
Can Serve the Needs of Peace."
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CNBC
Arabiya:
CNBC
Arabiya is the newest 24-hour Arab satellite channel based
in the Gulf and the first dedicated to business news. Humphrey
Davies reports on CNBC Arabiya—The
Debut. TBS also interviewed Chairman and CEO Zafar
Siddiqi and Ward Edmonds, production director, and
caught presenters Lina Sawan
and Cyba Audi for a few
moments each.
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The
"Al Jazeera Effect":
TBS
also went to Qatar, home of the "Al
Jazeera Effect" but the appointment of a new manager
for the channel-with all that may imply in terms of a new
sensibility and orientation-came after our visit and only
days before TBS 11 was launched; see Stop
Press: Al Jazeera Gets New Manager. During our visit,
we interviewed editor-in-chief Ibrahim
Helal and Amr El-Kahky, an Al Jazeera reporter recently
returned from Baghdad, as well as the channel's then manager,
Adnan Sharif. Earlier,
TBS had talked with Al Jazeera's leading investigative reporter
Yosri Fouda.
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Arabsats:
the Debate:
Al Jazeera
and its peers of the Arabic-language 24-hour all-news satellite
TV world have caused great controversy. In Arabsats:
the Debate TBS presents four angles on the dreaded
Arabsats: the Palestine Center's Hisham Sharabi writes
of "The Political Impact
of Arab Satellite Television on the Post-Iraq War Arab World,"
Al-Ahram's Abdel Moneim Saeed of "The
Arab Satellites-Some Necessary Observations," Foreign
Affairs' Marc Lynch of "Taking
Arabs Seriously," and Al Arabiya channel's Salih
Al-Kallab of "The Arab
Satellites-the Pros and Cons."
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| THE
REGION AND THE WORLD |
| In
Saving Egyptian Pay-TV and
Contact Center, Noha El-Hennawi
looks at pirate distribution in Egypt and the measures CNE and
EDD at taking against it. |
Hassan
Hamed of ERTU
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| Brain
McNair assesses British TV played with the home audience
in "British Satellite Television and
the Aftermath of the Iraq War." |
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Hala
Abdulrahman reviews Orbit TV's new activities in the Egyptian
market and discusses these with managing director Felix Serhan
in "Orbit TV Enters New Territory."
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| Hussein
Amin presents new figures on Egypt's Nilesat viewership
in "Nilesat Research Shows Increased
Penetration." |
| Bassam
El Tayyara describes a new phenomenon in Arab satellite
TV in "Seeking Stardom on Satellite
Channels." |
| Janet
Fine visited Cannes to discover that "Egyptian
TV Markets Globally at Mipcom Market." |
| Olivier
Da Lage reports that Paris wants its "CNN,
French-Style." |
| Chris
Forrester presents the new developments at one of the world's
giant satellite stations in "Discovery
Communications: Growing, growing, growing." |
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| MEDIA
ON MEDIA |
| Completing
last issue's archive of the media's coverage of itself during
the Iraq War, Media on Media
provides a further 27 pieces from the world press, plus the
executive summary of the first in-depth research carried out
in Britain on TV coverage there of the war. |
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| CONFERENCES |
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AUSACE
Conference
Reem Obeidat
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Naila
Hamdy reports on The Eighth International
Conference of the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators
(AUSACE) and interviews Reem Obeidat,
holder of the UNESCO Chair for Communication Technology and
Journalism for Women at Dubai Women's College.
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Hussein
Amin covers "Satellite Broadcasting
and Arab Society" held in Amman.
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Ralph
Berenger summarizes the panels at The
86th Annual Conference of the Association for Educators of
Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC).
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| DEPARTMENTS |
| From
the Editors |
| The
Far Side of the Satellite: an essay by TBS publisher
S. Abdallah Schleifer on "The Impact of Global Media
upon Society." |
| Reviews |
Media
Wars: News at a Time of Terror by Danny Schechter (2003)
and The World News Prism: Global Media in an Era of Terrorism
by William A. Hachten and James F. Scotton (2002). Reviewed
by Ralph Berenger.
Masterminds
of Terror: The Truth Behind The Most Devastating Terrorist
Attack The World Has Ever Seen byYosri Fouda and Nick
Fielding (2003). Reviewed by Rasha
El-Ibiary.
From
9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy by
Douglas Kellner (2003). Reviewed by Rasha
El-Ibiary.
Diversity
or Anarchy: Current Debates in Broadcasting 10; Papers from
the 31st Manchester Broadcasting Symposium (2003). Reviewed
by Peter O'Brien.
Global
Communication edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour (2002).
Reviewed by Ralph Berenger.
Hollywood
North: Creating the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
by Michael Spencer and Susan Ayscough (2003). Reviewed by
Janet Fine.
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| Correspondence |
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