16 July, 2017 / By Deutsche Welle Saudi Arabia has yet to present a single reasonable argument in its row with Qatar, says Kersten Knipp. Serious power interests are at stake – as is, above all, the political culture of the whole region. It’s a long way from Saudi Arabia to Europe, which sometimes makes…
14 July, 2017 / By The Tower In the latest sign of the growing rift between the Saudi-led Gulf states and Qatar, the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates blasted Qatar’s Al-Jazeera network on Wednesday for promoting anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s minister for foreign affairs, charged that Al-Jazeera “promoted anti-Semitic violence by…
14 July, 2017 / By Europa Press El Consejo de Ministros ha autorizado a la Junta de Contratación Centralizada-Dirección General de Racionalización y Centralización de la Contratación del Ministerio de Hacienda y Función Pública, a celebrar un acuerdo marco para la prestación de los servicios de compra de espacios en medios de comunicación y demás…
13 July, 2017 / By Outlook India In a fresh attack on Al Jazeera Arabic, the UAE minister responsible for media regulation, Noura al Kaabi, has alleged that the channel had given a platform to “some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world”. The Guardian reported that the anti-Qatar alliance have also accused Al Jazeera of…
12 July, 2017 / By Nase Al Wasmi The UAE sends letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as Bahrain accuses Al Jazeera normalising extremist ideologies in the region. Ministers from the four Arab countries boycotting Qatar have condemned Al Jazeera news network for promoting extremist narratives saying the protection of the right to freedom…
12 July, 2017 / By Diario de Sevilla La presidenta del Consejo Audiovisual de Andalucía (CAA), Emelina Fernández, cree que la mayoría de televisiones públicas andaluzas tienen “margen de mejoría” respecto al pluralismo político, aunque este organismo ha percibido una mejora general y que algunas cumplen “muy bien” con sus objetivos. Fernández se reunió estos…
11 July, 2017 / By D. Aguayo, La Tercera Asociación Nacional de Prensa apuntó a falta de evidencia en cuestionamientos a la concentración y pluralismo de los medios. El lunes se lanzó el Informe Especial sobre Libertad de Expresión 2016, elaborado por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) de la Organización de Estados Americanos…
11 July, 2017 / By El Mundo La presidenta del Consejo Audiovisual de Andalucía (CAA), Emelina Fernández Soriano, ha mantenido una reunión en Málaga con representantes de las televisiones públicas locales de Andalucía para informarles de las mejoras que se van a introducir en los indicadores para medir el pluralismo político en los medios audiovisuales…
7 July, 2017 / By Mykola Riabchuk, New Eastern Europe Not long ago, the reputable Denmark-based international watchdog Freemuse, which monitors the freedom of artistic expression around the globe, published its annual report, titled “Art under threat”. One of the highlighted pieces from the report stated that “Ukraine in 2016 topped the list as the worst…
5 July, 2017 / By Gulf Times German Parliament President Norbert Lammert and German Parliament’s Deputy Speaker Claudia Roth have both denied rumours circulated in Saudi media of statements attributed to them by Saudi Minister of Culture and Information, Awwad bin Saleh al-Awwad, on the Gulf crisis. Al Jazeera quoted sources inside the German Bundestag…
5 July, 2017 / By The Peninsula Qatar Zagreb: The Croatian Journalists’ Association (CJA) condemned the siege countries demands of closing Al Jazeera Media Network. The association supported its colleagues in regional centers of the network in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, as well as in other countries. CJA said: “Politicians should not use…
4 July, 2017 / By Asian Correspondent The European Union on Monday called on the Burmese (Myanmar) government to uphold media freedom in the country, saying there have been a “worrying” number of arrests and prosecutions of journalists in recent months. The statement by the European bloc came in wake of last week’s arrests of…
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