Living Life to the Letter
Taysail was our only window to the world; he was our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp at that time. Time flew by and I grew up and started a professional career. I joined Al Jazeera, the pioneer media vehicle where I am learning new lessons every single day. One day, I happened to visit the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters in Florida. When I saw a TV live interview with one of the astronauts from space, I asked myself: “Why don’t we become the first Arab TV station to do so?” I mean to cover the space stories, as viewers must have grown weary of the earth’s. I established contacts with some of the NASA TV station’s officials, who expressed no objection in principle. However, some technical issues are still to be ironed out. Currently, we are exploring the prospects of TV coverage from Mars, the Moon and other planets. You may soon see one of our reporters attired in an ‘extravehicular.’ I was reminded of the extravehicular or ‘space suit’ when I saw our brave Beijing correspondent, Shayma Zhou Yiyi, covering the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic from Wuhan.
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