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...seven-member board of directors with reformers favoring a more straightforward approach. The board ousted founding al-Jazeera managing director Mohammed Jassim Ali, a Qatari who championed al-Jazeera's aggressive style and anti-Yankee tilt. As al-Jazeera executives see it, the channel needs to be more in tune with the demands for democracy and reform that are in the air throughout the Arab world...
...Arabic channel may continue to dominate Middle East ratings--surveys generally show that more than half of Arab viewers tune in to its news broadcasts--but it is the English channel that will make or break al-Jazeera's name throughout the world. Al-Jazeera International will not be a translation of the Arabic service, Parsons says, but an independent operation staffed by about 230 journalists in more than 30 foreign bureaus. The editors and reporters will be native English speakers, including many Westerners. (The in-house mosque is a standard feature of office buildings in the gulf states...
...question is not only whether American viewers will tune in but if U.S. advertisers will risk indirect association with a news organization that the State Department accuses of having a "clear pattern of false and inflammatory reporting" that endangers the lives of Americans, particularly U.S. personnel in Iraq. "There is no baggage heavier than anything that is related to 9/11," says Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in New York City. "Advertisers would be very careful in figuring out what the implications are to their product." Says Steve Tatham, author of a forthcoming book on Arab media...
...Broken Heart?), but this time he excels himself. Shout Out Louds Very Loud Singer Adam Olenius broadcasts his influences with his vocal cords (the Cure's Robert Smith and U2's Bono), but his swing from nonchalant weariness to faint glimmer of hope on this up-tempo heartbreak tune is so winning it almost sounds new. Akon Lonely Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus - a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed - arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity. A rare...
...plated two runs to draw even at four, but no sense of urgency had taken hold in the Crimson dugout. The atmosphere at O’Donnell Field still more closely resembled that of a pre-season exhibition among non-conference opponents than a post-season tune up between tournament-bound league champions...