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...cathartic energy—but there had also been an unsettling undercurrent of emptiness. The same where-do-we-go-now, what-do-we-do-now mood that characterizes many of our Friday and Saturday night peregrinations had pervaded the Yard and the Square. A shared elation had demanded outlet, but the outlet had proved unsatisfying. (At least it had lacked the violence to prove dangerous; the fate of the poor Emerson student killed by Boston policemen’s “non-lethal weapons” demonstrates the danger of rowdier celebrations...
Depending on your point of view, Al-Jazeera is either a shining example of independent Arab media or an infamously irresponsible, biased news outlet. Whether it’s airing exposés on government corruption in Saudi Arabia, discussing political Islam on one of its talk shows or broadcasting graphic images of American corpses being dragged through Baghdad, Al-Jazeera doesn’t shrink from controversy. Biased or not, Al-Jazeera as a media outlet is certainly “free” in the fullest sense of the word. With its unhindered reporting style, Al-Jazeera...
...Jazeera’s critics need to recognize two things. The first is that a homegrown, Western-style media outlet is not going to arise from the pebbled Qatari soil full-formed. The vast strides that Arab media have made since Al-Jazeera first began broadcasting in 1996 are impressive. Before Al-Jazeera, nearly all Arab media were state-controlled. Now the city of Dubai is selling space in its “Media City” at a brisk pace. Obviously, there is more work to be done. Al-Jazeera’s staff must learn to suppress their...
...coverage of the Iraq war, he might as well demand that the entire Arab world treat the United States more fairly. Media reflect the society they are born from—the society that they serve. You can’t change the underlying assumptions of a media outlet without changing the underlying assumptions of its consumers. To make Al-Jazeera kinder towards America, America is best off being kinder towards the Arab world...
Neill Solomon, the co-owner of Johnny’s, said he closed the restaurant so that staff and furniture could be transferred to a new, larger Johnny’s Luncheonette set to open later this month in a new Jordan’s furniture outlet in Reading...