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  • Al Jazeera to respond to I&B Ministry notice within 15 days

    Al Jazeera to respond to I&B Ministry notice within 15 days

    Updated:  02 Sep 2014 12:30 pm

     

    NEW DELHI: News broadcaster Al Jazeera is expected to respond well in time to the show cause issued by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry for allegedly depicting a wrong map of India in its news reports. 

     

    Sources confirming the issuance of the notice said a period had been given to the channel to reply to the notice.

    The Ministry had said that it had come to its attention that a wrong map of India had been shown in its news broadcasts by the channel last year more than once, in which parts of the country were shown outside the border. 

    “It had come to the notice of the Ministry that in some of the news reports shown by the channel in 2013 related to various incidents, parts of Jammu and Kashmir were shown in territory outside India. The Ministry took the matter with the office of Surveyor General of India. 

    “After a report was received from the office of Surveyor General of India, a show cause notice has been issued to the channel,” a source said. 

    Under the Cable TV Networks Rules 1994, no programme should be carried in the Cable Service which contains anything affecting the integrity of a nation. 

     

    An official spokesperson from the company said, “Al Jazeera takes all feedback on its coverage very seriously.  Our editorial policy is always in line with international law, and to ensure the greatest integrity and quality of information to our viewers in India and right around the world.

     

    “Our style guide says: ‘Any map of India must include Indian-Administered Kashmir, and any map of Pakistan must include Pakistan-Administered Kashmir.  The borders of Kashmir should be a dotted line.’ Some of our maps of both India and Pakistan though did not have the disputed territories clearly visible. This has been rectified.” 

  • Al Jazeera Intl goes with Apple

    Al Jazeera Intl goes with Apple

    MUMBAI: MAl Jazeera International, the English version of leading news broadcaster, Al Jazeera, announced the selection of a wide range of Apple products to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for the media organisation.

    Catering to a range of media requirements, the Apple-based technology project is set to deliver a total solution ranging from editing to storage needs. With a reputation for using cutting-edge technology, Al Jazeera plans to use the latest from Apple’s portfolio of solutions to revolutionize the functioning of the TV station’s video network.

    As had been reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com after a number of delays, Doha-based Al-Jazeera Network launched its English news and current affairs channel Al Jazeera International earlier this month.

    Al Jazeera has signed up with Arab Business Machine’s (Apple IMC Middle East) Reseller, PRO TECHnology to implement a turn-key media solution for the channel’s growing infrastructure.

    Al Zazeera states that journalists will benefit from the usage of Apple tools as the Final Cut Studio allows professional editors to elevate production values with powerful editing tools, revolutionary sound design, real-time motion graphics and next generation DVD authoring from the field, while the MacBook Pro is the first Mac notebook built on the Intel Core Duo processor, which delivers the power of two processors on a single chip – for blistering performance with high-end creative applications.

  • CNN doc looks at the hospital emergency scene in Iraq

    CNN doc looks at the hospital emergency scene in Iraq

    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN will air the documentary CNN Presents : Combat Hospital. It looks at the life and death struggles that the medical team face every day in the Iraqi capital’s military emergency rooms at the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. It airs today 11 November at 8:30 pm and on 12 November at 12:30 pm and 8:30 pm.

    With access to the five doctors, 14 nurses and 22 medics who treat casualties from US and coalition forces, the civilian population and even insurgents, in a building that Saddam Hussein once used for his own personal medical care, the show reveals the horror and humanity of present day Iraq.

    Presented without narration, the programme looks at the American military’s frontline hospital starkly depicted with the daily challenges that face the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. Graphic video and natural sound reflect the reality of the chaos and heroism in a wartime emergency room: gunshot wounds, burns, amputations and other devastating damage caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

    Filmed during 16 days of exclusive access to the “Mountain Medic” Combat Support Hospital by CNN Baghdad bureau chief Cal Perry, CNN senior photojournalist Dominic Swann, and CNN’s Ryan Chilcote, viewers see why the maturity and professionalism required in a combat emergency setting are hard-earned.

    A young nurse, Lt. Riane Nelson, R.N., talks ruefully about how she was “picked” to come to Iraq after being called to replace another nurse who became pregnant shortly before her tour of duty.

    Nelson’s supervisor, head nurse Lt. Col. John Groves, describes the back story of Nelson’s early inability to keep up with the requirements of their busy unit. Then, Nelson worked with other personnel to resuscitate a critical patient with CPR, saving her life. After that, says Groves, “her confidence skyrocketed.” By the time viewers meet Nelson, she is a self-assured and proficient team member, saving more lives during the programme.

    Outside of the emergency room, the unit tries to maintain some normality by playing football and baseball in the alley behind the hospital and even celebrating a co-workers 21st birthday.

    In one of the most compelling sequences in the documentary, the film crew captures the arrival of 12 casualties during a few moments of relative quiet for the medical team. Four are already dead. Seven U.S. soldiers and CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier are critically injured and fighting for their lives. The team goes back to work; their trauma rooms are full again.