INTERVIEW-Saudi media empire tries to counter opposition http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL09856399
Thu Aug 9, 2007
By Andrew Hammond
RIYADH, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has extended its influence over pan-Arab media to try to counter opposition political movements that challenge the U.S.-allied monarchy, a Saudi media mogul said this week.
Using its oil wealth, Saudi Arabia has built up a vast media empire since the early 1990s that filters out criticism of Saudi domestic and foreign policy and floods Arab audiences with music videos, Hollywood films and soft-focus apolitical Islam. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL09856399