Middle East media articles

Middle East media * new links added 10/10

1) from Marion:

Arab TV controversies:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=114280&d=14&m=9&y=2008

2) from Marion:

NYT article on Oprah and Saudi women
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/world/middleeast/19oprah.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=oprah%20saudi%20women&st=cse&oref=slogin

3) *** ex public diplomacy? US to fund pro american publicity in iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204223.html


4) IN EMIRATES, NEWSPAPERS STILL A GROWTH INDUSTRY

Spacious and airy, the newsroom of the National seems a newfangled journalistic field of dreams, with its stylish furniture, flat-panel monitors and roomy, uncluttered desks. Though the new United Arab Emirates newspaper has a daily circulation of only 70,000 to 90,000, it has grand ambitions and leaders who are bullish on print journalism. Although most newspapers are laying off reporters and editors, the English-language National, which launched in April, has quickly built an editorial staff of about 240 reporters, stringers and editors, luring many from Western papers. Newland is a former editor of London's Daily Telegraph and the business editor is from the Wall Street Journal.