How Much Openness?
The above-mentioned comments about the pan-Arab satellite stations reflect a serious change, one that has taken place within the following framework: The plurality in ownership of the means of media transmission. The countries that could not do that overtly, like Saudi Arabia, have resorted to transmitting from European countries, thus benefiting from the laws regulating media transmission in these countries. The improvement in the level of technical performance. The multiplicity and depth of content, emanating from the openness on the various subjects. On the whole, a discussion of the content can be considered according to the following order: news, entertainment and cultural programs. We will, however, confine ourselves to news because it is the carrier of the flow of information. An editor in the news room of one of the Arab satellite stations once stated that news on human-rights violations can be aired with complete freedom and without censorship, but only if it deals with violat
