1.0 link 100139 <![CDATA[Arab Broadcast Forum Lays Bare "Muzzling" Media Charter]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/magda-abufadil/arab-broadcast-forum-lays_b_100139.html Participants at an Arab media confab this week ripped through a proposed broadcast charter seen as a precursor to stricter laws and a crackdown on maverick news channels challenging repressive regimes.

"The charter's key aim is to gag the media," said Ahmad El Sheikh, Al Jazeera channel's chief news editor at a two-day forum in Abu Dhabi. "It's really very strange."

Al Jazeera has long alienated Arab regimes with its special brand of provocative news reporting and challenging talk shows. Its...

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