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In the aftermath of 11 September, Western television publics got to know Al-Jazeera, a satellite television channel based in Doha, Qatar, because national and international television stations broadcasted exclusive images from this Arab channel. It was the only channel with an office in Taliban’s Kabul and it took delivery of several video statements by America’s most wanted: Osama bin Laden. Long before the attacks on the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, Al-Jazeera was already famous under the Arab public and students of the Arab World. It owed its reputation to its editorial freedom and its legendary controversial broadcasts, a unique phenomenon in the media landscape of the Arab World. National (state) channels and other pan-Arab (private) channels hardly meet free press criteria. News and politics are reduced to propaganda broadcasts for those in power. In contrast to these practices, Al-Jazeera gives a voice to opponents to the regimes in power and organise round tables and public debates. It is often called ‘The Arabic CNN’ to underline that Al-Jazeera and CNN share common characteristics: an international audience (although through a different world language, but Al-Jazeera’s global audience includes the Arabic speaking diasporas in Europe and North America), a reputation established by the news coverage of a war (the 1991 Gulf War for CNN, the 2001 Afghanistan War for Al-Jazeera) and last but not least similarities in form and presentation. However, if Al-Jazeera can be described as the Arab CNN, the reverse (CNN as the American Al-Jazeera) is not true. This is because CNN has been a model for Al-Jazeera’, for example one of the most popular shows ‘The opposite direction’ was modelled after ‘Crossfire’, and not the other way around1.
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Mamadouh, V., De Jong, M., Lalenis, K. (2002). An Introduction to Institutional Transplantation. In: De Jong, M., Lalenis, K., Mamadouh, V. (eds) The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation. The GeoJournal Library, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0001-4_1
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