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August 16, 2005

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Nur al-Cubicle

And there's probably _marxists_ in there too!

David

Part of this deal seems to involve flogging old current affairs programmes. The report mentions Correspondent and This World, but This World is essentially Correspondent under a new name, and anything made under the name Correspondent will be (IIRC) at least a year old.

I wonder if the Beeb is still planning to launch its own Arabic television channel. And, just to make this even more incestuous, we mustn't forget that some of Al-Jazeera's founders came from the original BBC Arabic channel that was closed because its Saudi partners didn't take kindly to criticism of the Saudi government...

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