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...gate, a 100-yard walk in 120-degree heat took me through the parking lot to the driveway of a small, low-set building with portable housing units scattered about. When Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited this place—the headquarters of the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera??he surveyed the small compound and exclaimed: “All this noise comes from this matchbox...
...Jazeera??s free-wheeling, emotional style of reporting has attracted criticism from all angles. Media intellectuals fear that Al-Jazeera is setting a bad example for Arab media by not adhering stringently to Western media practices. Arab leaders chafe under the bad press they get for denying their people a say in government—Al-Jazeera has single-handedly ruined relations between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. And American government officials fear that the mix of pan-Arab nationalism, muted Islamism and outright anti-Western bias espoused by the station will only incite the Arab world...
...attacks and predicts further outbreaks of violence. Secretary of State Colin Powell lamented that al-Jazeera was giving too much airtime to “vitriolic irresponsible kinds of statements.” But Al-Jazeera maintained that it was simply doing its journalistic duty. As Ibhrahim Hilal, al-Jazeera??s chief editor, stated, “We put every word, every move of President Bush on the air. Arabs accuse us of being pro-American, even pro-Israeli. The Americans say we’re pro-Taliban. We must be doing something right...