May 5, 2008 - Participants at an Arab media confab this week ripped through a proposed broadcast charter seen as a precursor to stricter laws and a crackdown on maverick news channels challenging repressive regimes.
"The charter's key aim is to gag the media," said Ahmad El Sheikh, Al Jazeera channel's chief news editor at a two-day forum in Abu Dhabi. "It's really very strange."
Al Jazeera has long…
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