Al-Jazeera Launches English Site
Now that news about Iraq and the rest of the Mideast has become a staple of every newspaper and TV station's top headlines, it's good to get another perspective. The Arab news station Al-Jazeera launched an English-language Web site this week that offers an excellent way to read a different viewpoint. The English site works closely with the television station and the Arabic Web site (launched in 2001), but has its own staff of nearly 50 Western and Arab journalists....Sep 05, 2003 | E-MAIL | SAVE | PRINT | PERMALINK | DISCUSS(1)
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1 comments about 'Al-Jazeera Launches English Site'would that it did. my disappointment with the english al-jazeera site is that it is put together from western agency reports and does not offer any new pespective. have a look at the report on the saddam tape story. it is kissed off in 3-4 paras with the rest of the day's events in iraq pasted on at the end - very unimaginative agency work. you should tell them to tear up their contracts with reuters and afp and translate their own stuff. that would be worthwhile.
Posted by Paul Iredale at September 5, 2003 2:22 PM
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