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A month before the war in Lebanon broke out, the Al Jazeera channel began filming documentary programs, which have not yet been broadcast, about life in Israel and, among other things, the Hebrew press. In an interview that a reporter for the channel conducted with me, she read out questions that had been dictated by the office in Amman and the editorial desk in Qatar. I told her the Israeli press...

TEHRAN, Aug. 24 — The title of the show is “Holocaust International Cartoon Contest,” or “Holocust,” as the show’s organizers spell the word in promotional material. But the content has little to do with the events of World War II and Nazi Germany. There is instead a drawing of a Jew with a very large nose, a nose so large it obscures his entire head. Across his chest is the word Holocaust...

And not as a political campaign strategy to deceive people into thinking that we are making head way as a nation when in actual sense we are not. The president during a rally in Chipata, warned Dr Kaunda to stop participating in politics or risk having his pension terminated. Honestly people, can one ask a politician to the bone like KK to stop caring about Zambia, a nation he saw from birth up to...

Tension has been mounting in Gaza Strip since a group calling itself the Holy Jihad Brigades released a video of two Fox News Channel journalists it said it kidnapped last week. In a statement with the video on August 23, the previously unknown group demanded the release of prisoners held by the United States within 72 hours in exchange for the journalists, an American and a New Zealander. The...

A Beijing court on Friday morning unexpectedly dismissed a state secrets charge against a researcher for the New York Times but sentenced him to three years in prison on a lesser, unrelated charge of fraud, the newspaper has reported. The verdict against researcher Zhao Yan, 44, spared him a prison sentence of 10 years or longer and also served as a blunt rebuke to the investigation by state...

THE first thing to greet a visitor to the Oslo headquarters of Schibsted, a Norwegian newspaper firm, is its original, hand-operated printing press from 1856, now so clean and polished it looks more like a sculpture than a machine. Christian Schibsted, the firm's founder, bought it to print someone else's newspaper, but when the contract moved elsewhere he decided to start his own. Although...

“A GOOD newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself,” mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared. At their best, newspapers hold governments and companies to account. They usually set the news agenda for the rest of the media. But in the rich world...

Cancun - The offices of Cancun's two major newspapers - Por Esto and Que Quintana Roo Se Entere - were the intended target of a multiple grenade attack, police officials said Thursday. But only one person was injured when the explosions occurred outside the buildings, sparing the safety of workers inside. The Red Cross confirmed that a 20-year-old man was treated for superficial wounds of this...

Managing Director of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Ahmad Khademolmelleh here Wednesday said that besides fighting in the military front, Lebanon was involved in a media war directed by the US. He made the remark at the inaugural ceremony of a photo exhibition, called 'Lebanon, Epic of Victory' at the School of Media Studies, which was attended by Lebanese Ambassador to Tehran Adnan...

MUMBAI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Bigger stacks of glossy magazines are hitting the newsstands in India as an increasing number of foreign titles are launched here, but tough ownership rules and low advertising yields are keeping a lid on profits. The country's large number of English speakers, rising disposable incomes and greater media penetration have attracted such names as Pearson Plc (PSON.L: Quote...