Qatar-based channel and nine other stations have licences revoked as government claims they fuel bloodshed
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“…It’s less of a pipe dream than you might think. A new program could bring affordable care to the poor…”
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Mobile phone service is suspended in a number of major cities in Pakistan this weekend, as authorities try to prevent attacks during the Shi’ite festival of Ashura.
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Media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”. This also applied to the UN.
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News staffers at the cable network CNN, long the gold standard in television news, were on the verge of open revolt Thursday after CNN blew the coverage on the most consequential news event of the year.
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Euler Hermes SA (ELE), a French-German trade-credit insurer, said it may reduce its coverage of exports to Greece because of the risk of the country exiting the euro. A decision is planned before the end of May.
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Al Jazeera Arabic’s Beirut correspondent, Ali Hashem, resigned on Tuesday after leaked emails revealed his frustrations over the news channel’s coverage of Syria, according to a source within the television network.
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The BBC has been accused of a cover-up after spending almost £350,000 on a legal battle to suppress an internal report about bias in its Middle East coverage.
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FEMA is planning to award a 100% small business set-aside contract to a media monitoring firm that can monitor, archive and measure all local news in “major Nielsen markets,” all nationally broadcast news and all cable outlets for their news coverage of FEMA activities in the field across the U.S.
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On Monday, a Current representative confirmed Olbermann would host future coverage.
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