BBC planning Arabic station

Rolo · 06-24-2004

The west should do much more like this to fight the propaganda of the islamic countries.

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BBC planning Arabic station as counterweight to Al-Jazeera

LONDON (AFP) - The BBC plans to launch an Arabic-language television channel broadcasting to the Middle East in direct competition to Al-Jazeera, a report said.

The plan has been devised by Britain's Foreign Office, which would also help finance the venture, the Financial Times said.

Britain is keen to see the BBC offer an alternative to Doha-based Al-Jazeera and other Arabic stations which have proved popular in the region with an editorial stance that often irritates London and Washington, the paper said.

The new station would be modelled on existing satellite news and features channel BBC World, and while broadcast from London would have staff around the Middle East.

Running costs would be around 28 million pounds (42 million euros, 51 million dollars) per year, the report said.

The British government already supports the BBC's World Service radio network, and a request for additional funding for the Arabic station has been included in a spending request submitted by the Foreign Office to the Treasury, it added.

"This particular proposal is still under discussion and we have asked the World Service to look at various aspects of it before we could come to a final conclusion," a Foreign Office spokeswoman was quoted as telling the paper.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...ia_040624090959

Maybe we should start making some arabic porn sites, less than 3-5% of our traffic have set their browser language to Arabic, however I guess those people are either sitting in the west as refugees with their family stil living in arabic countries, or they are located in those countries (scary)... either way we need more people with arabic relations surfing porn sites, and the world will be better.
Now we just need to have goverments in the west pay the bandwidth, which are generated by Arabic surfers, so we can open the porn gates in the west