By elaborately selecting and emphasizingthesporteventsinOlympic Games, it completedthe newsframing to constructnationalidentities and becamethe linkage betweensport and national identities.
Al-Jazeera's slant could be seen not so much in its highly professional news reporting as in the editing and framing of stories, the angling of interviewers' questions, and the choice of sound and imagery for the dramatic plug spots that fill time between programmes.