Tehran
Iran’s state broadcast agency is launching a 24-hour English-language satellite news channel it says will tell the stories that the BBC and CNN leave out. Tehran-based Press TV has reporters stationed in the Middle East as well as in Washington, New York, and London; it plans to carry news bulletins, talk shows, and documentaries. Nader Rad, head of live programming for the network, said the Western media’s coverage of the war in Iraq, the Palestinian crisis, and Iran’s nuclear program “does not cover all perspectives,” and that Press TV will fill that gap. The channel will be available throughout the Islamic world. Rad denied that the network will be a propaganda tool of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “It is a state-owned channel, but is not managed by the state,” he said.
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