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Reem Haddad believes that the main aim of the al Jazeera TV channel is to counteract the pro-Israeli Western media ('Satellite wars', Letter from Lebanon, NI 364). Surely it could do much more for millions of Arab viewers.

Without trivializing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a popular Arabic TV channel would be expected to give similar coverage to many other issues. Disparity of wealth, autocratic rulers, ethnic and sectarian conflicts, women's rights, quality of educa...