LIFE AS AN ARAB: ARAB MEDIA

FINALLY FREE

Basil Dudin (basildudin@gmail.com) — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:43:00 GMT

And finally justice said its word and one can say long live media free of opression and bureaucracy. Two days earlier, NEW TV crew consisting of correspondent Firas Hatoum and cameramen Abed Khayyat and Mohammed Barbar were freed. Just would like to take this opportunity and congratulate these youngmen for their courage and wish them more and more success in the revelation of the truth at all times... [read more]

FREEDOM FOR FIRAS MOHAMMED AND ABED

Basil Dudin (basildudin@gmail.com) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:05:29 GMT

It has been 40 days since authorities have held New TV's correspondant Firas Hatoum and News crew members Abed Khayyat and Mohammed Barbar on alledged charges of breaking into the appartment of Syrian soul witness on the assassination of the late Lebanese PM Rafic Hariri Mohammed Zuheir Siddique. It is really a shame that free media, particularly from a new generation of young journalists, is... [read more]

ALARABIYA CHANNEL - SUCCESS OR SCANDAL

Basil Dudin (basildudin@gmail.com) — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:33:00 GMT

Many bloggers decided to tackle the way ALJAZEERA presents its news. There were so many positive remarks yet there were so many negative ones. One negative point as seen by journalist Batir Wardam for example is that ALJAZEERA talks about corruption of all Arab regimes with the exception of Qatar. He also feels that it deliberately tries to demonstrate political justification of attacks in countries... [read more]