GCC WANTS ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TV CHANNEL

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- The Gulf Cooperation Council is studying a proposal toestablish an English-language channel to counter efforts to blacken theimage of the Arabs in the West. The proposal was submitted to GCC information ministers during theirsummit in Manama on Wednesday. The proposal would establish a satellitechannel in English that would seek to battle Arab stereotypes in the West inthe wake of the Sept. 11 suicide attacks on New York and Washington.