BBC goes head-to-head with al-Jazeera
Let the games begin.
In one corner stands the BBC World Service, the corporation’s venerable 70-year-old voice to the world backed by £239m of taxpayers’ money. In the other the upstart satellite TV channel al-Jazeera, barely a decade old, bankrolled from the bottomless reserves of the emir of Qatar.
[...] ple outside the Arab world are trying to influence its citizens. In the same week that the BBC announced its new Arabic language satellite TV station, the Open Society Institute ran “a brainstorming worksho [...]
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