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Titolo: (OT) Al-Jazeera English hits airwaves

The Arabic television news channel al-Jazeera has launched its
new English-language station.
November 15, 2006, BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6149310.stm
Al-Jazeera English began broadcasting from the station's
headquarters in Doha, Qatar, at 1500 (1200 GMT).
A screen graphic with a clock ticking down the minutes gave
way to a photo montage of the biggest news stories of recent
years, including 9/11.
Al-Jazeera in Arabic is known for its forthright style, frank
journalism and willingness to discuss taboo issues.
This has made it a thorn in the side of governments from
Washington to Riyadh, says the BBC's Ian Pannell in Cairo.
After the opening credits, presenters Shiulie Ghosh and Sami
Zeidan ushered in the new channel, saying it would be "setting
the news agenda".
"It's November 15th, a new era in television news."
The channel then went to images of correspondents in various
locations including Gaza then Sudan's Darfur region, followed
by Iran and Zimbabwe.
As it went on air, the channel had to contend with a breaking
news story on a tsunami expected to hit Russia and northern
Japan.
'Middle Eastern feel'
Al-Jazeera English will initially broadcast for 12 hours a day
before becoming a 24-hour news operation from 1 January.
It will broadcast from studios in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London
and Washington DC, in addition to 20 other countries.
It will be available to 80 million homes - double its target
audience - in Europe, Africa and south-east Asia.
In the United States, the channel will be available via a
broadband internet connection, but not distributed by a major
cable or satellite system.
Originally due to launch in 2005, the station employs some 800
people from 55 countries and hopes to bring a different
perspective to international events.
"It is definitely an international channel, but it's certainly
going to have a Middle Eastern feel about it," one of the
channel's presenters, Felicity Barr, told the BBC.
"The instant reaction for, say, a Western organisation, is to
get analysis from the United States or from the UK," she
explained.
"We will be getting our reaction, first and foremost, from the
Middle East."
The channel is hoping to revolutionise English-language
television in the same way it revolutionised Arabic-language
television 10 years ago.
But our correspondent says this will be a much harder task.
Established rivals
Al-Jazeera's achievement in the Middle East was to break a
monopoly on information held by governments and state
broadcasters, our correspondent says.
But the international market is already much more developed
with well established rivals in the BBC and CNN.
"One of our goals is to reverse the flow of information to the
south," Wadah Khanfar, director general of the al-Jazeera
Group explained to Reuters news agency.
While the hope is that a major English-language channel
operating from the Middle East will give the Arab world a
global voice, our correspondent says the launch will simply be
a moment of pride.
But, he adds, the question for some in the region is whether
the new channel will be as outspoken as its sister station and
whether it will adopt a similar editorial stance.
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 Al-Jazeera in Arabic is known for its forthright style...
che e' un "forthright style"?
me lo chiedevo. l'ho scritto, erroneamente, sulla barra dell'indirizzo
piuttosto che su quella della google bar.
Faccio invio e mi appare
http://www2.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwdictsn?va=forthright
che e'? un dizionario omaggio con IE6????
Cmq interessante.
La giornalista italiana a A-J. sta pure facendo en-plein di interviste qui
da noi....
A.

piuttosto che su quella della google bar.
presumo sia quello stile per cui gli spettatori integralisti ti
prendono per progressista e quelli progressisti per integralista.
Sto seguendo al jazeera in inglese in questi giorni: non è afatto
male.
L'intervista a Blair merita di essere mostrata nelle facoltà di
giornalismo italiane.
Ma solo ai tesisti: le matricole potrebbero restare turbate.
Cordy:  "  You can bet if someone ordered a male body part for religious sacrifice 
the world would be atheist (snaps her fingers) like that."