Is this going to give new energy to extremists? Even if it doesn't, it's hard to see lasting benefit coming from it. Note the last paragraph I quote. Are they concerned Saudi's are believing what they hear about Saudi Arabia in the American media more than the Saudi Arabian media, or is this not targeted primarily at Saudi's at all?

Saudi Arabia has launched an all-news satellite television channel to present a new image of the Gulf Arab kingdom, the station's director has said.


Ikhbariya, inaugurated on Sunday by the kingdom's first female news presenter, will broadcast in Arabic for 12 hours a day before stepping up to round-the-clock programming, director Muhammad Barayan told Reuters.

"We want to tell the world about our country, to give a new image," he said. "The American media...put out things about Saudi Arabia that are not true - like that Saudi Arabia is not fighting fundamentalists."