INTERVIEW: Host of Al-Jazeera’s 'Listening Post' discusses the network, blogging, 9/11, and the US media
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/25/2007 2:48 PM INTERVIEW: Host of Al-Jazeera’s 'Listening Post' discusses the network, blogging, 9/11, and the US media By Deena Douara First Published: March 23, 2007 [ ] Richard Gizbert, host of Al Jazeera's "Listening Post Richard Gizbert hosts the weekly "The Listening Post" on Al-Jazeera English, highlighting how news is handled across the world’s media, including newspapers, television, blogs, and radio. He had previously worked for Canada’s CJOH-TV, then ABC News for eleven years, until he was fired in 2004 for refusing to cover the Iraq war, after having covered the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Somalia, and Rwanda. He sat down with The Daily Star Egypt during the Literacy Challenges in the Arab Region Conference in Doha last week, where he was invited to speak about the importance of media literacy. Why is Al-Jazeera in English important? It's important because it's different. It's the first global English-language news channel not based in the West, and that's a powerful idea. One of their executives talks ... >> full
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Not Pretty, But Pretty Accurate
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/31/2007 4:39 AM Friday, March 30, 2007 Not Pretty, But Pretty Accurate By Leonid Sedov With elections to 14 regional legislatures on March 11 in the past, the focus now turns to the big parliamentary prize, the State Duma election in December. Most analysts saw March 11 as a dress rehearsal, a kind of first attempt at putting the voting pen to paper, if you will. If you take into account that the word "pen" is also prison slang for a switchblade, however, it appears the metaphor was carried too far in some instances. In St. Petersburg, which has earned a post-Soviet reputation for xenophobia and crime, Legislative Assembly candidate and A Just Russia election committee head Viktor Bykov received three stab wounds. There were also violent incidents in the southern Stavropol region and Dagestan and Karachayevo-Cherkessia in the North Caucasus. There were no other knifings, but there were altercations at polling places, attacks on party election workers and the throwing of eggs and bags ... >> full
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''Russia and its Muslim Population: A Balancing Act''
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/1/2007 1:08 AM PINR 01 April, 2007 10 September 2004 ''Russia and its Muslim Population: A Balancing Act'' s last week's terror campaign against the Russian Federation reached a bloody crescendo with the deaths of hundreds of children in its southern city of Beslan, the world was once again reminded of the vulnerability of Russia to Muslim-sponsored terrorism. Within a space of one week, two passenger liners went down within minutes from each other, a suicide explosion killed innocent bystanders near Moscow's subway, and a group of militants took hostage -- and eventually killed -- hundreds of young innocent lives. The Russian government pointed to the possible al-Qaeda link in all these events, once again promising tough measures in its own fight against terrorism and Islamic fundamentalist fighters in the restive Republic of Chechnya. The aftermath of these attacks in the name of Chechen independence now poses a difficult set of questions in Russia's relationship with its large Muslim population. Russia's Muslim Population Officially, Russia's ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/1/2007 1:37 AM The Sunday Times April 1, 2007 The Moscow plot The murder of Alexander Litvinenko horrified the world — and spurred former Moscow correspondent Martin Sixsmith into a dangerous hunt for the killers. As he reports in this extract from an explosive book on his findings, the clues lead into the heart of Russia’s secret police It was six o’clock on a Monday evening and the snowstorm had set in for the day. Cutting down the side of GUM, the Victorian department store that stares across Red Square to the Kremlin, I could see barely 10ft in front of me. The red brick of the Kremlin wall emerged from the gloom and I was transported back to the first time I had come here, 20 years earlier. Then I was a young reporter with a coveted pass to attend Mikhail Gorbachev’s groundbreaking Congress of People’s Deputies, where democrats slugged it out with communist dinosaurs as Russia engaged in real political debate for the ... >> full
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Friendship Offered on Tough Terms
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/4/2007 8:10 AM Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Friendship Offered on Tough Terms By Yulia Latynina It occurred soon after reports that the Vostok battalion, a pro-Moscow unit in Chechnya comprised of local recruits, was engaged in a 2005 ethnic cleansing raid in the predominantly ethnic Avar village of Borozdinovskaya. It was there that troops set fire to a car after a local boy, after watching soldiers beat a man in a schoolyard, screamed at them: "If you're men, then settle it one on one." They then set fire to a number of homes and, when the smoke cleared, a 78-year-old man was dead and 11 other people were missing. Local residents later filled plastic bags with the charred remains of people who had burned to death in their homes. It was following these incidents that President Vladimir Putin lashed out at those who abused Russian citizens. But Putin was referring to Poland, where local hooligans had assaulted the children of Russian diplomats and ... >> full
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