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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Dave Marash: ABC News Nightline on WCHS-TV8
Marash has filed a series of reports on the wars in the former Yugoslavia, including stories that predicted the arrival of guerrilla fighting in the province of Kosovo.
Marash spent more than a decade in local news in New York and Washington, D.C. From 1985 to 1989 he was a news anchor for WRC-TV, Washington.
Marash was a correspondent for ABC News' "20/20" from 1978 to 1980, where he won a national Emmy Award for his reporting on the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
www.wchstv.com /abc/nightline/davemarash.shtml   (506 words)

  
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Prior to moving to New York, Marash was a senior producer at ABC News in Washington, DC, where she supervised the Washington bureau's magazine division.
During her more than 23 years in television news, Marash has produced everything from breaking news and investigative reports to historical documentaries for the ABC network.
Marash won a Peabody Award for a documentary on the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a co-production with NHK Television of Japan.
www.iwmf.org /about/bio/k_marash.php   (132 words)

  
 The New York Observer Media Mob: Marash Joins Jazeera: "Marriage Made in Heaven"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Marash was in talks with the brand-new Doha-based English-language satellite news channel, whose global launch is scheduled for the spring.
Marash won three Emmys and one DuPont award during his time at ABC and left the network at the end of November, under not entirely amicable circumstances, after Ted Koppel's last broadcast of Nightline.
Marash joins a number of other Western journalists, including Brit interviewer Sir David Frost and former CNN talk show host Riz Khan, in jumping to the upstart network, a sister channel to the controversial Arabic language version.
themediamob.observer.com /2006/01/marash-joins-jazeera-marriage-made-in-heaven.html   (592 words)

  
 NJJN - A veteran ABC newsman joins Al Jazeera
Marash will be one of two broadcasters to anchor the American-based news programs on the network that critics have labeled a “mouthpiece for terrorists.” His co-anchor has yet to be announced.
Marash draws a distinction between the new English-language service and the one now broadcasting in Arabic, which emanates from Doha, Qatar, and reaches an estimated 30 million viewers in the Arabic-speaking world.
Marash, who first began reporting for Nightline in 1989, is leaving the show as it undergoes major changes, including the “retirement” of anchor Ted Koppel — who reportedly turned down an offer from Al Jazeera and has since joined the Discovery Network.
www.njjewishnews.com /njjn.com/011906/njveteran.html   (1015 words)

  
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MARASH: [voice-over] And this- ANNOUNCER: This is Jeopardy.
MARASH: [voice-over] From those early days on, giving viewers news, or religious programming, or a wide assortment of cultural points of view was part of every broadcaster's FCC-mandated responsibility to gain access to the public airwaves.
MARASH: [voice-over] Today the cable-based shopping channel, QVC, is seen in three-quarters of cable TV homes, and the Home Shopping Network, also on some cable stations, adds to that audience a potential 27 million customers who tune in over the air to more than 100 broadcast affiliates.
www.uiowa.edu /~cyberlaw/cpsr/nitelin1.txt   (3309 words)

  
 Free Press : Is Al Jazeera the Next PBS?
Marash was a paragon of seriousness, as his bearded chin and intense eyes announced to even casual viewers of wrc-tv, Washington’s local NBC affiliate, and, by 1989, he was fed up.
It reflects their point of view,” Marash explains from the conference room of 1627 K Street, where, on the fourth floor, AJI’s studios are still under construction.
Marash may have escaped the sensationalism of local TV news, but he may be about to experience something much more professionally painful.
www.freepress.net /news/15184   (3079 words)

  
 UNICEF - Real lives - In the name of the father: Helping children affected by blood feud
But these days Marash doesn’t have much opportunity to see whether the police are doing their job or not.
Marash is a living victim of blood feud – revenge killing sanctioned in medieval practices that have re-emerged in northern Albania since the fall of the Communist regime in 1991.
Marash’s older brother, Zef, was killed four years ago at age 17 to avenge the death of a man killed by the boys’ uncle over a banal dispute about harvesting lumber in a forest.
www.unicef.org /albania/reallives_765.html   (757 words)

  
 frontline: the clinton years: nightline transcript: clinton addresses nation on economic plan | PBS
MARASH (VO): Decidedly unlike Mr Reagan, though, was Mr Clinton's admission of failure.
MARASH (VO): This kind of preemptive strike at opponents in Congress and among other entrenched interest groups could have sprung from the lips of Ronald Reagan or any other former president.
MARASH (VO): The apocalyptic vigilance of Perot and the overwhelming optimism of Reagan, a bit of Kennedyesque sacrifice, a touch of Harry Trumanish bashing of big business greed - there was quite a crowd of voices tonight in the Oval Office, but only one president can sell this program to Congress and the nation.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/02151993.html   (3627 words)

  
 ABC News: Dave Marash
Since 1992, Marash has filed a series of reports on the wars in the former Yugoslavia, including stories that predicted the arrival of guerrilla fighting in the province of Kosovo.
His report on a 13-year-old Kosovar girl injured by a Serb booby-trap produced an outpouring of voluntary contributions, and today the girl, Ibadete Thaqi, is being trained, free of charge, in the use of two new prosthetic legs made for her at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
Marash has won numerous broadcasting honors, including seven local Emmys, a New York Press Club Award for his WNBC-TV series on the lack of facilities to save victims of smoke inhalation, and an Overseas Press Club Award for his 1972 CBS Radio reports on the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympic Games.
abcnews.go.com /Nightline/News/story?id=128683   (484 words)

  
 Dave Marash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is now part of Al-Jazeera's English language channel.
Marash came to ABC News from WCBS-TV in New York.
His last appearance was on ABC News' Nightline with Ted Koppel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dave_Marash   (104 words)

  
 Dave Marash
Before he began reporting for Nightline in 1989, Marash spent more than a decade in local news in New York and Washington, D.C. From 1985 to 1989, he was a news anchor for WRC-TV, Washington.
Marash anchored the news for WCBS-TV in New York in 1981 and 1982, as well as from 1973 through 1978.
Marash was a correspondent for ABCNEWS’ 20/20 from 1978 to 1980, where he won a national Emmy Award for his reporting on the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
www.radioannouncers.freehosting.net /talentbios/Marash.html   (158 words)

  
 AIM Report - July B, 1980
Marash that it would be hard to imagine Amnesty International praising a country that was holding over 7,000 political prisoners, and he modified his statement to say that he had talked to some Amnesty International staff member.
Marash did not know, when we spoke to him, that a paper called El Plueblo has been closed down and the editor jailed earlier this year.
Marash said that three politically different papers are sold in Managua, but he did not say that one is the Sandinista paper, the second is a slavishly pro-government paper, and the third is La Prensa, which recently resumed publication.
www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1980/07b.html   (4751 words)

  
 cantonrep.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Marash would have come to TV sooner, but ”when I started out there were literally no other beards on television,“ he recalls.
Before long, the bearded Marash and mustachioed Smith were the top-rated anchor team in New York and remained so for a third of the decade.
I ever worked with.“ Marash was a rare anchor-reporter who did investigative pieces and who lived and breathed the New York fiscal crisis before getting hired by ”20/20“ as an investigative reporter in 1978.
www.cantonrep.com /index.php?ID=253778   (768 words)

  
 Baldwin I of Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tancred was surely seeking to capture some land and establish himself as a petty ruler in the east, and Baldwin may have had the same goal.
During his absence his wife fell ill and died at Marash, which meant that Baldwin could no longer depend on his wife's lands for support.
After rejoining the main army at Marash, Baldwin received an invitation from an Armenian named Bagrat, and moved eastwards towards the Euphrates, where he occupied Turbessel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baldwin_I_of_Jerusalem   (2163 words)

  
 Terror Television Blog » Marash Confirms Accuracy of AIM Film
Marash told The New York Sun last week that he has not seen Mr.
Now he’s singing a different tune, admitting that in the latter case,  “There was a fairly high executive who was revealed on evidenced developed in Baghdad after the fall that he had an unhealthy relationship with Saddam and Uday.
Marash also conceded that the network may have played a role in the decisions of some in the Arab world to attack Americans.” That is another point we make in our film.
www.stopaljazeera.org /blog/marash-confirms-accuracy-of-aim-film   (397 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Ex-ABC reporter joins Al-Jazeera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A former correspondent for ABC News' "Nightline" is joining Al-Jazeera, the Arab news network often criticized in the West as a propaganda organ for terrorists.
Marash, 63, calls Al-Jazeera "a thoroughly respectable news organization" and describes his new position as co-anchor from the network's Washington studio as "the most interesting job on Earth."
Marash won Emmy Awards with "Nightline" for his coverage of the war in Bosnia, the Oklahoma City bombing and the explosion of TWA Flight 800.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48339   (496 words)

  
 Rediscovering Armenia Guidebook- Cilicia - Armeniapedia.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The forces of Mustafa Kemal attacked and while the French negotiated a retreat for themselves, the Armenians fought, and in Marash and Aintab defeated the Turks.
French diplomacy annulled these victories and the Armenians were forced to leave once again, with those in Marash and Aintab being massacred one last time mercilessly as revenge.
The new names of Marash (Kahramanmarash - "Heroic Marash"), Urfa (Shanliurfa - "Glorious Urfa") and Aintab (Gaziantep - "Victorious Aintab") were changed by the Turks after taking the cities, though the new names do not reflect what actually happened.
www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Rediscovering_Armenia_Guidebook-_Cilicia   (616 words)

  
 Arab News Channel Faces a Tough Sell In American Debut | theledger.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Marash says he expected a backlash when he was hired.
Note: Marash was talking on a speakerphone in Washington, with AJI publicist Jazayerli in the room.
Marash says he was recruited about nine months ago by former "Nightline" producer Rebecca Lipkin, based in London.
www.theledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060325/NEWS/603250321/1021   (1287 words)

  
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Memories of Marash is composed of interviews with Marash natives, including Genocide survivors, as well as their children, and experts on the subjects of Marash and Cilicia.
Among the wide variety of topics touched upon in the video were aspects of the everyday life of residents of Marash, as recollected by interviewees such as the Rev.
Janikian observed that although the Marash dialect was not “pure” in that it contained many Turkish words and phrases, this was simply a reflection of the reality of Armenians in that region.
www.commercemarketplace.com /home/naasr/hagopian2002-rel.htm   (690 words)

  
 Terror Telivision - Katie Couric Whitewashes Bloody Record of Al-Jazeera
The purpose was to convince the public that we have nothing to fear from the English language version of this state-owned terrorist propaganda operation.
On the Today Show, Marash claimed that Al-Jazeera's airing of Osama bin Laden videos has had the effect of showing him to be a psychopath to the Arab world.
MARASH: Well, you know ironically, before 9/11, Al Jazeera was the favorite Middle East channel of the Bush administration.
www.stopaljazeera.org /katie_couric_whitewashes_record.html   (2085 words)

  
 Veteran ABC Newsman to Anchor Al Jazeera in English | The Jewish Exponent
He noted the original Al Jazeera attempts to "represent as broad a spectrum of political opinion as possible, and certainly in the Arabic-speaking world, a large segment of that palette is very unpalatable to us as Americans and very hostile to Israel and, frankly, anti-Semitic.
Marash, who first began reporting for Nightline in 1989, is leaving the show as it undergoes major changes, including the departure of anchor Ted Koppel, who reportedly turned down an offer from Al Jazeera and has since joined the Discovery Network.
Before Nightline, Marash was as an investigative reporter for WNBC-TV and the news anchor for WCBS-TV, both New York City-area stations.
www.jewishexponent.com /article/2264   (753 words)

  
 On The Media-- ANGLO JAZEERA
DAVE MARASH: Al-Jazeera in Arabic is, I believe, one of the most revolutionary and positive influences on the Arabic-speaking, mostly Islamic Middle Eastern world in, literally, centuries.
According to Marash, Al-Jazeera aims to create the widest possible debate, and that means including the most extreme views.
DAVE MARASH: I don't think the guest booking is going to be a problem, because most of the people whom we would want to book as guests know the Al-Jazeera brand does stand for editorial integrity and quality.
www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_022406_anglo.html   (1023 words)

  
 Aintab, Marash and Urfa
For the most part their relations with the Moslems were friendly, though in Marash, where apparently the close proximity of the mountain sections seemed to roughen all, there was considerable jealousy and antagonism.
One exception might be made in regard to Marash, and the well-known jealousy of the Turkish Government in regard to colleges made some fear for Aintab.
The effect was manifest in Marash, which was made the headquarters for the troops that soon came pouring in to put down this sole instance of real insurrection in the whole empire.
armenianhouse.org /bliss/turkey/24-aintab-marash-urfa.html   (5315 words)

  
 Strange Trip: Dave Marash Goes From "Nightline" Reporter to Al-Jazeera Anchorman | NewsBusters.org
As Newsday's Verne Gay reports this morning, Marash insists that despite al-Jazeera's reputation as a mouthpiece for al Qaeda terrorists, "conventional and, dare I say, informed opinion is that the channel is thoroughly respected."
Dave Marash, the veteran "Nightline" correspondent who left the program late last year, has landed at Al-Jazeera International, the new English-language news channel that will be spun off from Al-Jazeera later this spring....
Marash - who will be chief anchor and correspondent based in the 24-hour channel's Washington bureau - said yesterday, "I really don't know the [format] details yet," but that four hours each day would be devoted specifically to news out of Washington.
newsbusters.org /node/3584   (1300 words)

  
 Educational Resources -- Lions of Marash: Personal Experiences with American Near East Relief
An eyewitness account of the Armenian massacres by Stanley Kerr, an American Near East Relief official in the town of Marash, in central Anatolia, from 1919 to 1922.
The French withdrawal led to the massacre and final dispersion of the Armenians of Marash.
It was at great personal risk that Kerr and his colleagues stayed at their posts to help the thousands of Armenians who had been deserted.
armenian-genocide.org /Education.17/.../resourceguide_detail.html   (182 words)

  
 Documents 119-129. Bryce. Armenians. XV---Cicilia (Vilayet of Adan and Sankjak of Marash).
The town of Zeitoun, which was exclusively inhabited by Armenians and is famous for its heroic struggles against the Turks, took warning by the manifest intention of the Ottoman Government to take advantage of the favourable moment created by the war for effecting the extermination of the Armenian race, and revolted several months ago.
The Turks, with the Government officials at their head, everywhere declare openly that the extermination of the Armenian element in Turkey is for them one of the necessities of national salvation, it being understood that the Allies protect the Armenians, and that they afford a permanent pretext for foreign intervention in the country's affairs.
The Pasha in returning to Marash took away with him a number of the Armenian notables, allowing the soldiers to insult and beat them on the road.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/1915/bryce/a14.htm   (18029 words)

  
 Expedition for the relief of Marash and Zeitoun
As fine a mounted Turkish soldier guard as ever escorted an expedition was at once found, and Dr. Harris with his corps of assistants, hastened on to Marash, where he was welcomed by Dr. Hubbell of our first expedition, on the eighteenth of April, after five days' of severe travel.
We found that the medical work was being cared for by native physicians, and the missionaries and their wives were caring for the other relief work, one feature of which seemed to me very valuable indeed, i.
Macallum, funds enough to keep the soup kettles going for one week, and 200 liras ($880) worth of flour, which would suffice for at least six weeks, and by that time it was hoped that all the refugees would have departed for their homes.
armenianhouse.org /barton/red-cross/ira-harris.html   (2075 words)

  
 Opening Moves
DAVE MARASH (Voice Over) Iraq is asking UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to end the no-fly zone overflights, something he is very unlikely to do.
DAVE MARASH (Voice Over) Even while it grows its offensive forces, the Bush Administration today won a major victory for its vision of the defensive front of the war on terrorism.
DAVE MARASH (CONTINUED) (Off Camera) And on a second defensive front, Tom Ridge, the Director of Homeland Security says the US and its allies have detained and are holding more than 2,000 suspected al-Qaeda operatives, many of whom, Ridge says, have given up important information about terrorist plans, assets and capabilities.
www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2002/021119-iraq01.htm   (3299 words)

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