AMW study: British media reaction to Saudi state visit
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 (532 reads)
British media opinions on Saudi Arabia have always been highly vocal, passionate and polarised. This has perhaps never been more true than during the recent Saudi state visit to the UK, which elicited very strong reactions not just about the visit itself, but also bilateral relations, and the Saudi leadership's domestic and foreign influence. The media's reactions to this visit can thus be described as representative of its views on Saudi Arabia in general. As such, an in-depth study by Arab Media Watch of opinions expressed in Britain's broadsheets and tabloids during that time (29 October - 5 November 2007) spells bad news for Saudi Arabia's image, and more specifically, that of its government.
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AMW study: Palestinian & Israeli viewpoints in the media
Monday, October 01, 2007 (628 reads)
This three-month study focuses on the extent to which Palestinian and Israeli viewpoints are provided in news articles - in general and per media organisation - regarding their conflict, in terms of the number of sources used from each side, and the amount of space they are given according to word count.
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AP & Lebanon's death toll
Thursday, August 09, 2007 (526 reads)
9 August 2007 Arab Media Watch commends Lebanon's Higher Relief Council for publishing a fully searchable database of those killed in last summer's Israeli invasion. This is particularly relevant to the Associated Press, with which AMW liaised for months last year, resulting in a press release criticising AP for its low Lebanese death toll of 850 (the lowest available, and around 30% less than most other sources), and for its stubborn refusal to explain how it obtained this figure.
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AMW publishes report on UK media coverage of Israel boycott
Thursday, July 12, 2007 (572 reads)
12 July 2007 Arab Media Watch today publishes a report on the British media's coverage of the proposed academic boycott of Israel, and finds that significantly more coverage was given to those opposed to it, leaving the public without a balanced exposure to both sides of the argument.
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AMW report: Media portrayals of Arab Gulf states
Monday, April 30, 2007 (570 reads)
30 April 2007 Arab Media Watch announces the launch of a major monitoring study of how the media portrays the Arab Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Covering the period July 2006 to March 2007, the 21-page report focuses on editorials, columns, commentaries, analyses and features from the British national daily broadsheets and tabloids.
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AMW disappointed by media ommission of Olmert's Lebanon admission
Friday, March 16, 2007 (500 reads)
16 March 2007 Given the frequent media criticisms and depictions of Hezbollah instigating a war last summer that Israel did not want, Arab Media Watch is disappointed that the Guardian and Independent were the only British national dailies to report, on 9 March 2007, the revelation by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the invasion of Lebanon was in fact premeditated.
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AMW concern over media coverage of King Fahad Academy
Monday, March 05, 2007 (513 reads)
5 March 2007 Arab Media Watch is concerned that although allegations of racist teachings at London's King Fahad Academy were widely reported in the national British press, its exoneration by Ofsted - the official body for inspecting schools - was reported only in the Times, albeit in brief.
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