Hillary meets Al Jazeera in Qatar
Last week I posted that Hilary Clinton was in Doha. It seems that she also met Al Jazeera on her trip. From the New York Times :
So it is notable that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made time to meet with the news network’s senior management during her tour of the Middle East this week.
The network said in a statement Monday that Ms. Clinton met with its director general Wadah Khanfar “and the network’s senior editorial staff for a meeting to further dialogue with Al Jazeera.”
The meeting was held on the Carnegie Mellon University campus in Doha, Qatar, the city where Al Jazeera is based. It lasted for about one hour.
The meeting was “quite frank” as Al Jazeera managers “put their frustrations on the table,” according to a network employee who was briefed on the meeting.
“Over all, the meeting was very positive,” the network employee added.
I wonder what they talked about...!
Good question..
I suspect that Clinton asked technical questions on how media is performed in al-Jazeera and probably what needs to be done to get Al-Jazeera to help improve the greatly deteriorating US image..
On the other side, Al-Jazeera staff probably asked about Clinton's visit purposes, current trends especially those related to Iran and maybe try to explain how impartial they are to please the lady..
Just my guess but nothing unusual