Al-Jazeera : a broadcaster creating ripples in a stagnant pool Quinn, Stephen and Walters, Tim 2004, Al-Jazeera : a broadcaster creating ripples in a stagnant pool, Australian journalism review, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 53-69. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads quinn-aljazeeraabroadcaster-2003.pdf Published version application/pdf 533.75KB 587 Title Al-Jazeera : a broadcaster creating ripples in a stagnant pool Author(s) Quinn, Stephen Walters, Tim Journal name Australian journalism review Volume number 25 Issue number 1 Start page 53 End page 69 Publisher Journalism Education Association Place of publication St Lucia, Qld. Publication date 2004-07 ISSN 0810-2686 Summary Al-Jazeera is unique in the Arab world. In an environment of state-controlled or stale media, this Arab-language news channel sees itself as a source of fresh water in a parched region bereft of freedom of expression. It broadcasts controversial subjects and, in doing so, has attracted an audience of 35 million households - and plenty of criticism. Most notable controversies have been the airing of tapes of Osama bin Laden. and the broadcasting of images of captured Coalition soldiers and bloodied corpses during the Iraq war. Before those events, Al-Jazeera had criticised Arab heads of state, blatantly ignoring the Arab States Broadcasting Union's code of honour. Some companies have avoided the channel because advertising in the Middle East is based on political, not commercial, interests. Yet along the way, AI-Jazeera has put Qatar. a tiny Gulf nation of perhaps 600,000 people, on the world map. Based on the last-known interviews before the station went on a war footing, this paper looks at why and how AI-Jazeera does what it does. Among the things covered are how the station defines freedom of expression through its own eyes. the role that the station and its employees believe they are serving in the marketplace. and why they do what they do. The paper also considers the station s role in the war in Iraq in March and April of 2003. Notes Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner. Language eng Field of Research 190301 Journalism Studies Socio Economic Objective 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2003, Journalism Education Association Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30016817 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 03 Aug 2009, 10:46:39 EST Mon, 03 Aug 2009, 10:52:36 EST Mon, 03 Aug 2009, 10:53:31 EST Mon, 03 Aug 2009, 15:15:56 EST Tue, 04 Aug 2009, 16:12:55 EST Wed, 19 Aug 2009, 14:20:57 EST Wed, 19 Aug 2009, 14:21:54 EST Wed, 25 Nov 2009, 10:31:00 EST Tue, 11 Mar 2014, 12:29:05 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 12:25:14 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 06:29:38 EST Mon, 22 Jan 2018, 13:56:42 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 18:01:07 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1000 Abstract Views, 588 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 03 Aug 2009, 10:46:38 EST by Leanne Swaneveld