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Within Media Power and Global Television News by Saba Bebawi, the Introduction Al Jazeera English and Media Power was mainly about media as an influence on society, specifically regarding influence on global crises. Al Jazeera English became known as the alternative for the traditional “western” perspective. According to their areas of reach, transnational media categories are: local, national, world-regional, and global-regional. Moreover, BBC and CNNI became the main providers of world news, and non-Western alternatives became telesur, RTTV, CCTV-9, and Al Jazeera English. Chapter one, titled News Networks and the ‘Global Public Sphere’ stated that the global public sphere originated from the 18th century regarding equality and openness, and rationally debated issues of collected concern. It also involved early finance and trade capitalism. Media imperialism is a term that encompasses political economy and cultural imperialism-- specifically the rise of American corporate power and its ideological expansion worldwide via the media. It also encompasses aspects such as western parxis, media monopolies, information inequality, English as an elite language, and communication dependency. The global public sphere as “emergent” encompasses the idea that a multiplicity of voices is positive, diversity is good for the economy, and corporations obtain less control due to new emergent smaller media sources. The concept of domination and resistance within the global public sphere is a hybrid system, which is neither mediated nor ideal. Moving on to chapter two, Al Jazeera as ‘Alternative’? Is mainly about Al Jazeera becoming the “voice of the voiceless” and an alternative to the traditional Western perspective. Within the ‘Mediated Arab Public Sphere’, there is the National Model (national borders), the Transnational Model (pan-Arab), and the Global Model (post-9/11)....