(MENAFN- Gulf Times) He reminded the audience that His Highness the Emir had urged citizens and residents not to insult others and commended them for the high moral ground they kept while dealing with the abuses of the siege countries.
Salah Negm, Director of News at Al Jazeera English, said the media in Qatar should take advantage of the contradictions seen in the coverage by foreign media on Qatar since the start of the blockade.
Taking part in a panel discussion at the forum, Negm stressed that sections of the media in the Arab region, and even from outside, had fallen into the trap of propaganda while reporting on Qatar ever since the unjust siege began on June 5.
A number of media houses, backed by regimes in the blockading countries, have been spreading lies about Qatar, Negm said.
However, the silver lining is that some media organisations in those countries have kept their neutrality and maintained credibility in spite of all compulsions, he said.
Also speaking, top political analyst of the Arab region Marwan Bishara said he has enough reasons to feel journalists covering news for Al Jazeera channel enjoyed much more freedom than their counterparts working for similar channels elsewhere. Bishara singled out a couple of broadcast channels, having relatively good viewership, which he said have become mouthpieces for the propaganda of the countries where they are based.
To substantiate his points, Bishara referred to the positions taken by Al Jazeera while reporting the US aggression on Iraq and also the coverage of the Arab Spring and compared them with the reporting of the other channels.
General Manager of Al Jazeera TV Channel Network Yasser Abu Hilala explained how the network treated news while strictly maintaining adequate media professionalism.
The session was moderated by Ali Sand, Assistant Professor of Department of Islamic Studies at the Qatar University.
Qatar Media Corporation CEO HE Sheikh Abdurrahman bin Hamad al-Thani explaining a point as others look on at a panel discussion at the
conference yesterday. PICTURE: T K Nasar.
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