"Obama's choice to give his ground-breaking interview to the Saudi Al Arabiya and not to the American Alhurra is as clear a statement as it is possible to make of Alhurra's failure. It's time to face the facts and clean house to recoup some of that investment"Also, I hadn't heard anything about Alhurra's news anchors dressing in all black during the Gaza fighting to demonstrate their solidarity with the Palestinians (via Dafna Linzer at ProPublica)
"Last month, news anchors at Alhurra swapped out brightly-colored outfits for black suits as a demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza who were under Israeli fire during weeks of fighting there. Alhurra broadcasts to the Middle East, but its website carried streaming video of the anchors, wearing black suits on air at their news desk and during reports on the fighting. Two people with direct knowledge of the incident said Alhurra managers had instructed anchors to halt the practice at the beginning of the new year and were conducting an informal review of the incident."
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