Word: al-jazeera
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...folks running Al-Jazeera, arguably the most influential television station in the Middle East. As of this week, the outspoken network has officially been "encouraged" to "balance" its coverage of the region's news - i.e. "tone down" any anti-American sentiment...
...This hazy request (or was it a warning?) came during a meeting earlier this week between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Emir of Qatar, who is also Al-Jazeera's founder and primary benefactor. As is so often the case when First Amendment expectations collide with wartime diplomacy, the parameters of "acceptable censorship" seem to depend entirely upon personal perception. In this case, anyway, Powell's entreaty does not appear to have crossed any serious lines of protocol...
...media. American newsmagazines (including TIME) and newspapers sang the praises of the Doha-based satellite channel's defiantly novel approach to reporting news in the Middle East. By the late 1990s, CNN was so impressed by the news channel's coverage and influence that the Atlanta-based network added Al-Jazeera to their list of 200 international affiliates, a relationship that allows each network to use the other's video feed and pictures...
...Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa, the fledgling news channel quickly became famous among locals, and infamous among the regimes of the Gulf States, many of which went to great lengths (including turning off electricity to an entire country) to prevent their subjects being exposed to Al-Jazeera's "sensationalist" programming...
...revolutionary mindset. Two decades of isolation have left even the savviest leaders unsure about their positions and wary of catastrophic errors of judgment. State television, with its hard-line bias and Soviet-style programming, has long ceased to be a reliable source of information. So leaders watched cnn and Al-Jazeera, an Arabic all-news station, for the latest news...