The World : Jordan Ousts TV Newsman

Jordan ordered an NBC television correspondent to leave the country after he reported that Jordan has a “tightly controlled and at times even repressive society.” Rick Davis, one of a small number of American television correspondents based in Arab countries, was given a week to leave. Information Minister Hani Khasawneh said Davis’ feature about Jordan on NBC’s “Sunday Today” was “clearly against the country.” Davis said the Information Ministry told him he was being deported because of “inaccuracies in my reporting over the past three months, which mainly covered Arab reactions to the anti-Israeli Palestinian intifada (uprising).”