Country of origin United States Original network LinkTV First episode date 2004 Awards Peabody Award | Original language(s) English Original release 2004 (2004) Language English Executive producer Jamal Dajani | |
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Genres News, Current affairs, Reality television Similar Worldfocus, Early Today, BBC World News America, NBC Nightly News, PBS NewsHour | ||
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Mosaic: World News from The Middle East was a daily news program offered by the free American satellite channel, LinkTV. Mosaic featured selections from television news programs produced by broadcast outlets throughout the Middle East. The news reports were presented unedited, translated into English when necessary. The show's founding producer was Jamal Dajani, a Palestinian American and was co-produced by David Michaelis, an Israeli Jew. From late 2010 until 2013, Mosaic News was co-produced by Lara Bitar and Abdullah Edwan.
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Awards
It won a Peabody Award in 2004.
Distribution
Mosaic was broadcast on Link TV, a free informational channel available on DirecTV, Dish Network and some US cable TV systems; and is archived by the Internet Archive, from which it can be viewed.
Funding
Mosaic was supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Firedoll Foundation, and Link TV viewers.
Controversy
In January, 2004, and again in January, 2005, disputes arose over the airing of Mosaic on the Public-access television cable TV channel of Newton, Massachusetts. Opponents of its airing argued that the program provides a distorted view of Arab broadcasts, and a venue for antisemitism, anti-Americanism, and "terrorist propaganda". Supporters of the program, while conceding that the broadcasts may on occasion contain "anti-Semitic and anti-American content" argued that they "give Americans a diverse array of information about how the country is portrayed in the Middle East", and that their broadcast is a free speech issue.
Mosaic has also been criticized by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, which claims it "whitewashes terrorism and promotes extremism".