This is a presentation prepared for the Arab Satellite Television Broadcasting conference in Cambridge, UK, in November 2002.It is presented in its preliminary form for the benefit of TBS readers, and not as finished research. Since television's inception in the Arab world in the mid 1950s and in the 1960s, …

This article is based on a presentation at the conference "The Ethics of Journalism: Comparison and Transformations in the Islamic-Western Context," under the auspices of German President Johannes Rau (Bellevue Palace, Berlin, 29-30 March 29-30, 2001), organized by the German Institute for Middle East Studies (Deutsches Orient-Institut), Hamburg, and the …