The new media scene of many satellite TV stations stands in marked contrast with a long tradition of state-controlled television. In many instances, although several of the emerging channels are private, private ownership ...

In the mid 1990s, the Emir of Qatar conceived the idea of a satellite channel that would further the progressive image he hoped to establish for his state. At the same time, a short-lived partnership between the BBC and a ...

Few phenomena in the Arab world are more controversial than Al Jazeera – the satellite television news channel that, despite its brief history, has made itself known throughout the world and changed the face of a formerly ...

Reading the Symptom is concerned with naturalism; it is also necessarily concerned with capitalism as the complex-structuring whole within which naturalism operates and from which it cannot be disengaged. Tightly connected ...