Gloating

Published by You on 14 January, 2009 - 00:53

I know that gloating can be a bad thing... but I just gotta say.

Al Jazeera is another place that has started using Drupal as its CMS for some of its sites - namely its open content/ allowing others to share/modify the content for use by others. its one of using drupal.

I probably should not be but gloating (for a number of reasons really), but it does vindicate some choices I made a rather long time ago. Maybe I was smart back then? who knows Biggrin

More usefully, the is something interesting. Let's see how people use this. Could be extremely interesting if used well. Take a video, modify it, add with a small credit to Aljazeerah and use it as your own. Only if video editing was not a tedious affair...

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Submitted by You on 15 January, 2009 - 02:03

Al Jazeera provides an inside look at Gaza conflict

Last June, Al Jazeera English produced a report from Gaza about a young couple who were preparing to marry during the relative calm of the cease-fire between Hamas and the Israeli government, a time when they could finally shop for furniture and, as the reporter put it, let themselves "dream that a happy life together is within reach."

Today that reporter, Ayman Mohyeldin, a former CNN producer, can be seen with a helmet and flak jacket answering questions from an anchor back in the studio in Doha, Qatar, describing the Israeli bombing and ground campaign in Gaza designed to stop Hamas missiles from being fired into Israel.

In a conflict where the Western news media have been largely prevented from reporting from Gaza because of restrictions imposed by the Israeli military, Al Jazeera has had a distinct advantage. It was already there.

There are six reporters on the ground in Gaza, two working for Al Jazeera English and four working for the much larger and more popular Arabic version of the network, which was created in 1996 with a $150 million grant from the emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. Al Jazeera describes itself on the air as "the only international broadcaster with a presence there." ...

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