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[mithriltabby]

Just watched last night’s Daily Show, where Jon Stewart is interviewing Hassan Ibrahim, who is a journalist for Al-Jazeera. One exchange I found particularly interesting:

JS: Obviously in this country, the view of Al-Jazeera is very different than it is over in the Arab world. The view we have here is that it is, maybe not necessarily anti-American, but certainly slanted toward the Arab nationalist point of view, so if there’s one misconception that you’d like us to know about Al-Jazeera, what do you think that would be.

HI: I would just quote the last thing I read on the most popular Arab nationalist site on the Internet, where they describe Al-Jazeera as a mouthpiece for American imperialism and Zionists.

Has anyone with a reasonable claim to objectivity evaluated the journalism at Al-Jazeera?

Comments

[rhylar.livejournal.com]

Dunno. Reading their sections on the occupied territories, it seems like the writing is a mix of 2 different writers. Sometimes, the writer speaks of secret plots to perform various nefarious deeds, and sometimes they speak in a relatively unbiased manner about various diplomatic overtures. And sometimes they are smoking monkey crack, as in the assertion that the Egyptian President started the 1973 war in order to establish a peace treaty.

Strangely, I found some of the editorials less biased than the reporting, although that may be that the editors have better English skills.