Dubai (Reuters) - broadcasters Pan-Arab who played a key Arab reports uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt role help dynastic leaders the doors of the Gulf to stop the revolts spread on their patch of police, say analysts.
Qatar Al Jazeera-based main Arabic-language network, was crucial in maintaining momentum in the protests that toppled the Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, anchored both leaders were not friends of the Qatar decision of Al Thani dynasty.
When the cameras Al Jazeera became the Yemen, it was as if his guns were trained on the next target in a long-standing uprising, Arab leaders have been convinced was manufacturing chain.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose poor country of 23 million is not a member of the Arab Gulf easy club, accused Al Jazeera of running a "room of the operations of burn the Arab nation." His Government revoked the licences of the Al Jazeera correspondents on its cover to the Yemen.
For viewers to watch the demonstrations spread throughout the region, the excitement suddenly stopped at Bahrain. Thin cover has been given to protests in the Gulf Cooperation Council member and the repression that followed by his Sunni leaders who called in Saudi Arabia and Emirati troops in March under a regional Defense Pact.
Events in Oman and Saudi Arabia also received little attention in recent months.
"Bahrain does not exist as Al Jazeera is concerned, and they avoided inviting Bahraini or Omani or Saudi criticism of those regimes," stated As'ad Abu Khalil, Professor of politics at the University of California.
"More glaring, Al Jazeera is not a view that is critical of repression Bahrain to appear in the air." "The GCC has closed ranks and Qatar can be rewarded with the coveted post of the Secretary General of the Arab League."
Despite a wealth of material, there is no agitation montages featuring comments by demonstrators or scenes of violence against the activists at Bahrain. Al Jazeera has produced these segments to accompany Egyptian and Tunisian coverage.
The threat posed by the Bahrain demonstrations was closer to home. Have their success would set a precedent for wider public participation in a region governed by the Sunni dynasties. More alarming for these dynasties, he would have given more power to majority of the Bahrain Shia, that is suspicious by Sunni leaders who fear the influence of the regional power Iran Shi'ite.
From the beginning, Al Jazeera framed the movements in Tunisia, Egypt, and then Yemen as "revolutions" and the Government subverts the prohibitions on its cover by viewers inviting to send images captured on mobile phones to a particular address.
"Despite being banned in Egypt, Al Jazeera went to great efforts to provide live coverage of events nonstop.". "He does step to the Bahrain,", said political analyst Ghanem Nuseibeh.
"Unless it can address concerns about its coverage of Bahrain, Al Jazeera will suffer damages reputation."
Al Jazeera has recognized "hard land" at Bahrain.
"It was a particularly heavy news agenda over the past months, with the uprisings taking place simultaneously in several countries in the Arab region," said a spokesman.
"The editorial priorities are weighed on a number of factors at any time." All news organizations have made to these pressures, but despite this and the difficult terrain to Bahrain, we've covered events in the country much. ?
DIPLOMATIC TOOL
Al Jazeera has won praise for revolutionizing the Arab media since 1996, but observers have seen coverage fluctuate on certain questions according to the whims of the leaders of the State of the Qatar.
Well oil and gas power, Qatar employs vast resources of Al Jazeera, including the sister English back channel has not shown the same reserve when it comes to the Gulf States.
A diplomatic cable U.S. WikiLeaks, released in December said diplomats U.S. sees Al Jazeera, belonging to the State of the Qatar Media Corporation, as a bargaining tool in its foreign policy.
Qatar launched a foreign political campaign on the Libya. He recognized the rebels as a legitimate authority of the Libya and joined the air strikes from the West on the Muammar al-Gaddafi force - Arab leader veteran has long been on bad terms with his peers in the Gulf.
Al Jazeera has followed with heavy coverage of the Libya.
During this time, the attention on the events in Syria - including the anti-Israel position had assured years Bashar al-Assad positive coverage - has been slow to pick up. He missed the discussed in detail the most favored Arab uprisings.
Through months of unrest, the Saudis Al Arabiya was conservative, reflecting the shock in Riyadh at the fate of the long time allies who, according to her, that Washington should have defended.
Saudi Arabia has given refuge to Ben Ali after he fled on January 14. On the Egypt, whose leader left on February 11, Al Arabiya long avoided the word "revolution" for "change."
Talk show presenter Hafez al-Mirazi "Studio Cairo" was dismissed in February after he said on air that it will host a discussion on political reform in the Gulf in his next show.
"I said no there was no excuse for anyone to Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya to discuss the Egypt all by being only unable to speak of the Emir of the Qatar or Qatari political or policy of King Abdullah and Saudi"."," Mirazi said after the night show was abandoned.
But in Libya, Al Arabiya seems finally find an Arab revolution, he loved to throw into coverage with enthusiasm. He was also gung - ho in covering the Syria, which, as the Libya, has been on bad terms with Riyadh.
ARABS OF THE GULF "DIFFERENT."
Analysts say only Saudi Arabia convinced its neighbors that any concession by the leaders of the Bahrain would have implications for all States of the Gulf, including the Qatar, even if it has a population of tiny only 260 000 nationals among a total of 1.7 million of.
"It was fantastic pressure from Saudi Arabia, the Qatar to join (the military operation in the Gulf) at Bahrain and at least to curb Al Jazeera," said a London-based analyst who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia - rivals for leadership roles in the Gulf - end years of frosty in 2007 links. The result was the end of any serious discussion of the Saudi policy on Al Jazeera.
The channel and its main competitor, the Saudis Al Arabiya, operate in a market of news which includes Hezbollah's Al Manar, Arab, BBC, France 24, Iran Al Alam and Egyptian channels, catering to some 300 million Arabic speakers.
"Al Jazeera is not very different to Al Arabiya when it comes to Bahrain - the two are tongue-tied by Saudi military intervention, said Ayman Ali, a commentator in the press in the Gulf."
(Edition by Lin Noueihed)
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