The impact of al-Jazeera satellite news network on the international news flow a meta-analysis study

Abstract EN

In 1980s, satellite technology has contributed in promoting the control of global satellite news networks on flow of international news from the North to the South.

And the international news networks became a main source for the news and information.

The South globe has suffered from ignoring these networks to their problems and issues and demanded from UNESCO to solve this problem which created a social and technological imbalance between the societies of the world , because of the free flow of information threatens the cultural identity of the South globe.

At the end of last century, news network have emerged from the South in an attempt to achieve the balance in flow of international information and news between the north and the South and to identify the North globe in their suffering through the news covering for their problems in depth .

In this study, the researchers used the Meta-Analysis approach to discuss the experiment of Al-Jazeera network in competition the international news networks.

The results showed that Al-Jazeera played an important in creating opportunities of the cultural convergence between the North and the South where it works to be a conciliatory medium.

In addition that Al-Jazeera contributed in achieving the balance in the international news flow regarding the events in the world, especially the war on Afghanistan in 2001and the war on Iraq in 2003and more events .