Aljazeera highly respected News gathering org??

[EriktheRed]

that's according to Andrea Mitchell @mitchellreports

"The fact is that @aljazeera stands all around the world as a highly respected internati'l newsgathering org" #mitchellreports
6:49 PM - 31 Jan 13

HMMM... maybe Andrea and the others MEMEing "highly respected" might want to talk to this person..

Al-Jazeera has long been suspected of lacking objectivity in its reporting of the Middle East. Now one of its most prominent journalists and director of their Beirut office, Ghassan Bin Jeddo, has resigned because of this.

According to Lebanese newspaper, As-Safir, which first broke the story yesterday, Bin Jeddo resigned in protest against Al Jazeera’s coverage of the recent uprisings throughout the Arab world, saying:

Bin Jeddo says..?
Al Jazeera has abandoned professionalism and objectivity, turning from a media source into an operation room that incites and mobilizes."

The following is from
THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE NEWS:THE CASE OF THE AL JAZEERA NETWORK by Shawn Powers
A Dissertation Presented to theFACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAIn Partial Fulfillment of theRequirements for the DegreeDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY(COMMUNICATION

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This fear was certainly omnipresent in the George W. Bush administration,especially with regard to media coverage of casualties from the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan. Not only did the Department of Defense have a strict policy banning photographs of dead American soldiers (or their coffins), but also the uninhibited andgraphic coverage of the wars by Arab media outlets, Al-Jazeera in particular, has resultedin outrage among some American policy-makers. In one sense, the Bush administration’sfears of the images were justified.

A quantitative analysis examining media consumptionin the Middle East conducted by Nisbet, Nisbet, Scheufele, and Shanahan (2004) foundthat viewers of pan-Arab satellite television channels were more likely to hold anti-American views and to be against the war in Iraq. Mohammad Ayish (2002) also foundthat sensationalism and highlights of images of casualties and consequences were prominent among Al Jazeera’s coverage of American and Israeli military efforts in theMiddle East, offering one possible explanation for the correlation between consumptionof pan-Arab media and anti-Americanism in the Middle East..

The Geopolitics of the News: The Case of the Al Jazeera Network | Shawn Powers - Academia.edu

NOW for you simple folks that still cling to your cliched notion Al_Jazeera is an unbiased newsgathering like Andrea, Matt, et.all that used that MEME~~~
THEY ARE NOT UNBIASED! The spout as much venom against the USA/Israel as if they were Al-Queda themselves!!!

You think it's odd that Arab Muslims would not be in favor of Christian and atheist Westerners invading a neighbor and killing other Arab Muslims?

Of course he does. They're not people, after all. People are only in the U.S. and other western democracies.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I'll take Al Jazeera over Fox any day.

Now you did it!!!!​

February 20, 2013

Al Jazeera America To Activate Muslim Sleeper Cells In Detroit

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"In a typical fair and balanced panel, Fox News warned on Wednesday that Al Jazeera is set to “infiltrate” the United States amid dire warnings about “sleeper cells” in the Muslim suburbs of Detroit.

Host Megan Kelly began a segment about Al Jazeera’s expansion into the American television market by raising questions about the network’s “real anti-American bias.” Contributor Lisa Daftari agreed, veering into blatant Islamophobic fear-mongering in the process."

 

[KissMy]

"The fact is that @aljazeera stands all around the world as a highly respected internati'l newsgathering org"

???

Maybe they don't edit videos and spin stories to support political agendas of their owners...like NBC CBS MSNBC and others. Compared to them, @aljazeera is top notch!

I have been watching Aljazeera America for a week now. They are less bias than MSNBC, Fox News, Current TV & CNN, but that ain't hard to do.

 

[Political Junky]

Andrea Mitchell is Mrs. Alan Greenspan, for God's sake.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

the right wing doesnt like brown people producing news

Seems so.

If only the right wing knew how much of their legit news was comming from Al-J

 

[Papageorgio]

I'll take Al Jazeera over Fox any day.

I wouldn't take either of those and I'd also dump MSNBC.