2. Al-Jazeera -- the Qatar-based 24-hour
Arabic-language news station
• Al-Jazeera’s history starts in 1996 when the BBC’s
Arabic newscasts for Orbit Communications were
stopped by the Saudi government.
• The resulting vacuum was filled by the new Emir of
Qatar – Hamad bin Khalifa al- Thani. He established
Al-Jazeera (The Island).
• Al-Jazeera is an important purveyor of television news
in all of the Arab countries included in the study --
Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kuwait, Jordan and Lebanon.
• The goal of offering news focused more on developing
countries.
4. DEVELOPMENT NEWS STORIES IN
AL JAZEERA
HEADLINE: Development in an age of
economic uncertainty.
12 Oct 2011
• Today, the world economy is more volatile than ever,
endangering recent progress in developing countries.
• The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).
• Addressed issues of universal human importance.
• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech
during a UN Millennium Development Goals forum in
Seoul.
5. Different and profound challenges for human
development
• Vulnerability to shocks directly impacts how well
households meet basic needs.
• How many people live in poverty.
• The access children have to schooling.
• The ability of men and women to find meaningful
and productive employment.
6. • Despite these new challenges, we cannot lose the
genuine hope and momentum for progress
embodied in the MDGs. Rather, fostering human
development now demands that we effectively
leverage recent lessons about how such crises affect
developing countries and the world's most
vulnerable populations.
• Only then can we develop and promote policies and
programmes that successfully manage vulnerability,
build resilience, and thus promote the human
development of all people.
7. Headline: Obama calls for new
approach to aid
• US president promises revamped policy to fight global
poverty by focusing on development and reducing
dependence on aid.
• Barack Obama has promised to re-focus US foreign aid
policy toward promoting economic growth and fighting
corruption as part of efforts to tackle global poverty.
• He told there is a need to switch to a results-based
approach to aid instead of simply throwing money at
development problems.
• He address echoed points made earlier by leaders of
several major western economies about focusing on
development and cutting down on dependence.
8. • The meeting of 140 leaders was to issue a
declaration agreed earlier this month
promising to recommit to the so-called
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
issued by the world body 10 years ago.
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