27 março 2003

VITAMEDIAS
Al-Jazeera wins anti-censorship award: The Qatar-based channel won the award for the best circumvention of censorship at Index on Censorship's third annual Freedom of Expression Awards last night.
The judges, including the former Channel 4 news presenter Sheena McDonald and the Daily Mail's veteran foreign reporter Ann Leslie, said: "Al-Jazeera's apparent independence in a region where much of the media is state run has transformed it into the most popular station in the Middle East."
Defence chiefs demand al-Jazeera stops screening film of dead soldiers: British defence officials last night asked the Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera to stop screening footage of two dead British soldiers and two alleged coalition prisoners of war.