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Posts by Adam Clayton Powell III

CHINESE TV EXTENDS ITS REACH INTO AFRICA
DEC 19, 2005 - 12:50PM PDT
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NAIROBI – December 10

Is Africa becoming part of the Middle Kingdom?

That is a popular question in the news recently: The week began with a Council on Foreign Relations report describing Africa's strategic importance to the United States. The report was comprehensive, but most American media accounts focused on one chapter, about energy, and how the Chinese were cultivating African oil, gas and other resources.

The week ended with the publication of Andrew Neil's remarks at the Institute of Economic Affairs, in which he detailed China's economic growth and worldwide expansion.

But here in Africa, you did not to... FULL TEXT
 
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UN LEBANON REPORT PROMPTS WALL-TO-WALL LIVE COVERAGE ON AL JAZEERA
OCT 25, 2005 - 1:33PM PDT
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WASHINGTON -- Oct. 22

Thursday night was a big night for Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language television news channel in the Middle East.

The preemptive lead story was the release of the UN report on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon.

For most news organizations, it was a story worth at best three or four news reports. At Al Jazeera, editors decided this was the only story of the night.

When the report was released, Al Jazeera's UN correspondent went to a small studio and read the report. On camera. All 54 pages of it. It... FULL TEXT
 
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PRIORITY FOR KAREN HUGHES: GET REPORTERS OUT OF BAGHDAD
AUG 25, 2005 - 1:38PM PDT
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As Karen Hughes begins to settle into her new office, she must see that one priority for U.S. public diplomacy is to get reporters out of Baghdad.

No, not get reporters out of Iraq: Just get them out of their bureaus in the capital.

The consensus of U.S. journalists in Baghdad is that it is just too dangerous to get out into the countryside, where they could report on what is happening - good and bad. But reporting what is happening - good and bad - should provide the world with a more complete picture of what the U.S. is... FULL TEXT
 
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THE VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER: IT’S MORE CRUISE THAN HUGHES
JUL 12, 2005 - 1:47PM PDT
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WASHINGTON, July 12 - There's truly no business like show business.

That old song title was reinforced during a recent visit to Australia and New Zealand, where coverage of the U.S. was frequent, detailed and prominently played. But the lens through which America was presented to the South Pacific was not Wall Street or Capitol Hill.

Day in and day out, coverage of Washington is trumped by coverage of Hollywood. True, the latest news from the White House merits a news spot or a brief story on the inside international news page. But it's Hollywood that gets the big play,... FULL TEXT
 
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AL JAZEERA HELPS SPREAD DEMOCRACY, SAYS FORMER CRITIC PERLE
MAR 30, 2005 - 1:50PM PDT
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WASHINGTON, March 30 – One of Al Jazeera's fiercest critics in the U.S. now says the Arab satellite channel has become a vehicle to spread democracy in the Arab world.

Acknowledging this reversal of his longtime criticism of the channel, Richard Perle this morning said Al Jazeera's broadcasts of elections in Afghanistan and Iraq and anti-Syrian protests in Lebanon was advancing democracy in the region -- just by the pictures it showed.

"Images conveyed by Al Jazeera have been very powerful," Perle said.

Just a few years ago, Perle was complaining that Al Jazeera's powerful images of civilian casualties in... FULL TEXT
 
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