From WNYKRs in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. As America observed the anniversary of 9-11, the rest of the world did too.

A satellite TV news service called WorldLink offers thorough, uncut broadcasts of the news elsewhere,

and its Middle East service called Mosaic followed the coverage there.

Mosaic producer Jamal Dejani, a Palestinian-American, said that in some ways the anniversary

observances throughout the region were radically different from our own, but in other ways,

they were very much the same.

It was very graphic.

Almost every station played the same stuff that was played on American

television, dedication, the ground zero, the destruction, President Bush speech.

But at the same time, they had different stories, stories, for example, about the effects of 9-11 on the Arab

American communities and the Muslim communities in the United States. Let's begin with some of

those, the stories we wouldn't have heard here. For example, from Al-Mannar Television, which is the

voice of the Shiite Muslims from Lebanon and it's financed by Iran,

they basically wanted to highlight the discrimination, the pain of the Muslim and Arab communities

in the United States. But on the other hand, other stations, for example, future television from Lebanon, they feature a Palestinian-American story.

He's an attorney and how the events of September 11 has changed his life, how it made him feel more American than Palestinian, how his definition of terrorism has changed.

With regard to Iraqi State TV, I think we can pretty much predict how they would react

to the events.

Iraqi State Television had an interesting story.

They were talking about the usual that the United States is going to use the September 11th as a pretext to invade Iraq.

But they also criticized American media for making such a big production out of it to bring fear to the American public.

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