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The BBC: Occupation? What occupation?!
Thursday, July 29, 2004 (521 reads)
By AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi
What prompted me to write this article was an item on the BBC website that exemplified all that is fundamentally wrong with the corporation's coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Arabic BBC channel regarded with skepticism in Middle East
Friday, July 16, 2004 (544 reads)
By Paul Cochrane
Daily Star (Lebanon)
The BBC announced last month that it intends to set up an Arabic television station backed by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) with a $50 million a year budget. This has been met with skepticism in the Middle East, coming so soon after the US-led war on Iraq, and hot on the heels of a US-government backed Arabic channel.
The BBC channel was requested by the FCO, a BBC spokesperson said, and would be based out of London, broadcasting 24 hours a day across the Arab world. The BBC added that the proposal was still under discussion between the FCO and the British Treasury, and a start up date had not been established.
The BBC has attempted to break into the Arab television market before, running an aborted attempt in the early 1990s that closed down after backers pulled out.
"It was a lot friendlier climate back then and I think now they're going to have a much tougher time," said Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi, chairman of the London-based Arab Media Watch in a telephone interview with The Daily Star.
"They didn't have the Arab competition they have now, and the political climate, in my view, is rightly hostile towards UK and US policy, and the BBC might be associated with that," he added.
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