Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists
Most outlets accepted Israel’s premise that any number of bystanders can legitimately be killed in order to target a supposed Hamas member.
In the Wake of Abu Akleh’s Murder, Media Continued to Obscure Israeli Violence
US media are “terrified of being attacked if they don’t repeat the Israeli versions of events. They live in constant fear.”
‘Iraqi Public Opinion Is Crystallizing Into Anger and Resistance’
“Assaults on residential areas with AC-130 gunships cannot possibly be designed to minimize civilian casualties.”
Will Americans Be Able to Watch Al Jazeera America?
The problem with liberal cable channel Current TV being sold to Al Jazeera isn’t that American TV viewers might be subjected to news with a point of view. It’s news with what many elites might consider the wrong point of view that is the problem.
Now They Tell Us: Iran Didn’t Actually Threaten to Wipe Israel Off the Map
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor acknowledged on Al Jazeera English (4/14/12) that Iranian leaders have never called for Israel to be “wiped” off the map. Meridor agreed with interviewer Teymoor Nabili’s suggestion that the supposed remarks were never actually made; Iranian leaders, Meridor said, come basically ideologically, religiously, with the statement that Israel is […]
Why Is It Hard to Believe President Obama Would Want a Journalist in Prison?
Jeremy Scahill’s piece at the Nation website (“Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?,” 3/13/12) about imprisoned Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye is riveting and deeply reported. But to Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum, the story doesn’t quite add up…because Barack Obama seems like a decent guy. As Scahill reports, Shaye […]
Newsweek’s Surprising Media Advice: Watch More Al Jazeera
In its new issue, Newsweek puts this as #4 on their list of “31 Ways To Get Smarter In 2012”: 4. Get News from Al Jazeera Don’t shut yourself out from new ideas. A 2009 study found that viewers of Al Jazeera English were more open-minded than people who got their news from CNN International […]
Missing Al Jazeera’s ‘Moment’
The Qatar-based TV news network Al Jazeera is quickly becoming one of the world’s most important international news outlets. Since launching its English-language affiliate, Al Jazeera English (AJE), in 2006, the network has extended its reach into 250 million homes in more than 100 countries (Arab Media and Society, Spring/11). In the United States, though, […]
LA Public TV: Less PBS, More Al Jazeera
Elizabeth Jensen has an interesting piece in the New York Times today (6/20/11) about Los Angeles public television station KCET. After deciding to cut its ties to PBS, the channel is experimenting with different programming options, including Al Jazeera English. And the results so far, according to one station official: Mr. Marcus said he had […]
Why Hold a Journalist at Guantanamo?
Today’s New York Times report (4/25/11) on the WikiLeaks Guantanamo files provides an answer: The documents show that a major reason a Sudanese cameraman for Al Jazeera, Sami al-Hajj, was held at Guantanamo for six years was for questioning about the television network’s “training program, telecommunications equipment and newsgathering operations in Chechnya, Kosovo and Afghanistan,” […]
Error-Prone NYT Reporter Lectures Al Jazeera English on Accuracy
New York Times TV reporter Alessandra Stanley (2/2/11) had a piece discussing why you can’t watch Al Jazeera English on your television. After noting that “demand was pretty low” for the channel until recently (unlike, I don’t know, Fox Business Channel, which must have dozens of die-hard fans), Stanley warned that zeal sometimes outstrips the […]
You Can’t Watch What You Want
The AP has a story today (6/14/10) noting the continuing problems Al Jazeera English is experiencing in getting on American television: Frustrated by its continuing inability to crack the American television market, Al Jazeera English‘s new strategy is to make itself available for free on every other possible screen. The Qatar-based news network said its […]
Press Freedom ‘Lip Service’ vs. ‘de Facto U.S. Policy’
Reporting that “the Obama administration has recently paid a lot of lip service to freedom of the press, particularly around the case of Iranian-American journalist Roxanna Saberi, who was released May 11 from an Iranian prison,” Jeremy Scahill asks (Rebel Reports, 5/26/09) the simple question, “If Iran Freed Roxanna Saberi, Why Won’t the U.S. Release […]
Only English Gaza News Shut Out of U.S. Cable
Even though “Al Jazeera English is also on the cusp of a carriage deal in Canada,” Broadcasting & Cable‘s Marisa Guthrie reports (2/18/09) that the channel has “had little luck getting picked up by U.S. cable and satellite providers.” As part of an effort to “appeal to consumers via a grassroots marketing campaign that attempts […]
