[Reader-list] Weather in Arabia, crisis in Gaza ,,,

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Weather in Arabia, crisis in Gaza ,,,


>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1948811,00.html

It's the weather that hits you first. The blonde meteorologist is a
fairly standard post-Ulrika Jonsson model, but her survey begins with
"cloud in the Arabian peninsula" and then works through Asia and
Europe before a quick pay-off mentioning "a lot of rain in America".

This approach was, however, emblematic of al-Jazeera English's general
attempt to change the climate of television journalism.

The emphasis is quite deliberate: to show American and European
viewers how it has felt to be an Arab or Asian viewer of the BBC or
CNN in recent decades. And so the London viewer tuning in to the
sports news heard not about Marcus Trescothick's depression or Steve
McLaren's temper but, first up: "The Iraq football team's search for
somewhere to play."

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