Mosaic: World News from the Middle East

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Mosaic: World News from The Middle East is the Peabody Award-winning 30-minute news program offered by US free satellite channel LinkTV. Mosaic features selections from daily TV news programs produced by national broadcasters throughout the Middle East. The news reports are presented unedited and translated, when necessary, into English. The show's producers (as of 2004) are David Michaelis, an Israeli Jew, and Jamal Dajani, a Palestinian American.^[1]

1 Distribution
2 Sources
3 Polices and disclaimers
4 Funding
5 Controversy
6 Notes
7 External links

[edit] Distribution

Mosaic: World News from the Middle East is distributed over DirecTV, Dish Network, some US cable TV systems, and is archived by the Internet Archive, from which it can be viewed.

[edit] Sources

Mosaic: World News from The Middle East broadcasts news programs from the following TV stations:

Nile TV (Egypt)
IRIB 2 (Iran)
Al-Alam News Network (Iran)
Iraq State Television (defunct since the US war in Iraq. Replaced by Al-Iraqiyah)
Israel Broadcast Authority: Arabic Channel Israel
Jordan Satellite TV (Jordan)
Future TV Lebanon
National Broadcasting Network Lebanon
2M-TV (Morocco)
Palestinian Satellite Channel (Palestinian territories)
Syria Satellite TV (Syria)
Yeman State Television Yemen
Abu Dhabi Television (UAE)
Dubai Television (UAE)
Arab News Network (Based in London, United Kingdom)
Al-Jazeera
Al-Arabiyah
Al-Manar (Hezbollah's TV station. Dropped from Mosaic in 2005.)

[edit] Polices and disclaimers

Link TV has stated, in many of Mosaic's program promotion, that it offers an uncensored view of the news. In addition to that, a spoken disclaimer is inserted at the end of broadcasts, specifically stating that the opinions expressed on the show are not those that Link TV holds.

[edit] Funding

Mosaic is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Firedoll Foundation, and by Henry and Vergilia Dakin.

[edit] Controversy

In January, 2004, and again in January, 2005, disputes arose over the airing of Mosaic on the public access cable channel of Newton, Massachusetts. Opponents of its airing argued that the program provides a distorted view of Arab broadcasts, and a venue for anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and "terrorist propaganda".^[1] ^[2] Supporters of the program successfully argued that the series gives "Americans a diverse array of information about how the country is portrayed in the Middle East", and that the broadcast is a free speech issue. ^[3]