[nuconvert]

Excuse me. But every TV station in the Arab world is state run. There are no private stations. Qatar could stop the anti-Iraqi crap on it's alJazeera station tomorrow.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

let me guess, you don't want their aid money?

I rest my case.

What a joke.

[snippy_about_it]

Qatar formally lifted censorship of the media in 1995 and since then the press has been essentially free from government interference.

Link

[AmishDude]

You are wrong. Al-Jazeera is not state-run. To what extend the Qatari government tolerates it, I don't know, but al-Jazeera is not Qatari state TV.

[FreeReign]

Excuse me. But every TV station in the Arab world is state run. There are no private stations. Qatar could stop the anti-Iraqi crap on it's alJazeera station tomorrow.

Excuse me. What is the difference between Al Jazeera and CNNABCNBCCBS?

[Qatar-6]

"Every TV station in the Middle East is state run?"

Al Jazeera isn't. Privately run (with stockholders) They've been a source of friction between Qatar and it's neighbors for over a decade. They piss the Emir off frequently, but he will not shut them down

We beat up on the Arabs for lack of freedom of the press and then when their free press is as irresponsible and anti American as say The New York Times, CNN, the Guardian, the BBC and Le Figaro.... we complain about that

Mike-in-Iraq is dead right on this one. I lived there for four years. It's one of the more promising countries in the Middle East.

Sbotz - Thank You in Arabic is "Shukran" or "Mashkur"

All the best

Qatar-6