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News Xchange 2004

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS: HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH OF JORDAN

HM King Abdullah of Jordan stresses the importance of Arab broadcast media’s independence for progressive change in the Middle East.
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Jerusalem Capital Studios CEO, Gaby Rosenberg, asks HM King Abdullah whether he thinks Arab media are covering Middle Eastern events in a fair and responsible manner and whether they contribute to the region’s peace process.
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ARD Executive News Editor, Jay Tuck, asks King Abdullah about the reporting of Al Jazeera and other Arab media and whether they influence the domestic situation within Jordan.
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Complete transcripts of the keynote: His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan


THE DIVERSITY OF ARABIC MEDIA

Session chair Emad El Din Adeeb asks Editor-in-Chief of Al Jazeera, Ahmed Al-Shaikh: "do you at Al Jazeera report everything or anything, or do you have a judgment"?
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Al Manar News Director, Ibrahim Mousawi, discusses his broadcaster's editorial position on reporting Palestinian bombing operations.  And Ahmad Fawzi, Director News & Media, UN Dept. of Public Information, discusses with other session contributors the difficulty of defining terrorism.
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Margaret Ward, Foreign News Editor of RTE, asks Ahmed Al-Shaikh about Al Jazeera's decision not to broadcast a tape of hostage Margaret Hassan being beheaded.
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Al Arabiya's Salah Negm and Alhurra's Mouafac Harb discuss the politics behind the financing of national and pan-Arab broadcasters.
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TF1 reporter Nahida Nakad talks about France's banning of the hijab in public schools and how it was reported by western and Arab media.
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Complete transcripts of the diversity of Arabic media session


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