AL-Jazeera Television Hits The Waves
Step Aside CNN, BBC Here Comes An Eastern Media Influence

Report By Independent Online
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Al-Jazeera TV hit Africa and Asia this week. According to the American-based Mecury News, its maiden telvised braodcast carried updates on Zimbabwe. ZimJournalists Arise was unable to establish whether Zimbabweans can watch Al-Jazeera. But the network made history in ZImbabwe by getting permission from Harare to set up a bureau last month, under a very hostile media environment.The channel is expected to challenge western dominance of the media. The news channel is targetting the world's 1 billion English speakers. What do you think of an easertn influence in media???

Al-Jazeera's English television news channel began broadcasting at 12.00 GMT on Wednesday, aiming to compete with Western global broadcasters.
Al-Jazeera English, sister channel of Qatar's Arabic channel Al-Jazeera, said its launch ushered in "a new era in international news", and began broadcasts with a news bulletin featuring reports from the Gaza Strip, Sudan's Darfur region and Tehran.

Anchors Shiulie Ghosh and Sami Zeidan stood in the ultra-sophisticated Doha studios as the channel flashed "breaking news" about a tsunami warning in Japan.

In an apparent attempt to immediately establish its credentials as a balanced network, Al-Jazeera English showed a snippet of an interview with Hamas political supremo Khaled Meshaal and said it would later air an interview with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

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