If only BBC journalists had the same backbone:
For over a decade, the Arab television broadcaster Al-Jazeera was widely respected for providing an independent voice from the Middle East. Recently, however, several top journalists have left, saying the station has developed a clear political agenda.
Doha tries to lead public opinion by the nose.
More than ever before, critics contend that the broadcaster is following a clear political agenda, and not adhering to the principles of journalistic independence.
Al-Jazeera has become a propaganda broadcaster.
According to Al Jazeera’s own description, it once aspired to be “a voice for the voiceless.”
So did the BBC.
I’ve noticed that too Alan. As of late they are broadcasting more and more about the Palestinian lie.
Also worrying is the Qatari’s buying up an inordinate number of assets in this country recently including North Sea oilfields, utility companies, financial institutions and media organisations.
Maybe more worrying is Qatar giving large amounts of money to universities and colleges. These donations always come with strings attached and, in Scotland anyway, these are always departments to promote ‘Islamic culture’ but in reality are pro Palestinian pro radicalist hate centres.
if BBC journalists had the same backbone? 😀
they ve sold out quicker than al gore to an arab checkbook
Well what a surprise!.
Al J is not impartial.
The BBC is not impartial.
The former serves the interests of the ruler of Qatar. The latter serves the interests of it’s overpaid executives and it’s so -called talent.
The former deals in the realities of power the latter in the illusions of a decadent and privileged liberal elite.
I actually find the former more palatable. It is at least honest.
I noticed a similar comment in the Commentator today
The collapse of Al-Jazeera’s credibility
Being a private media organisation with a name that is immediately associated with Islam, I would think that most people would suspect there will be a political bias in favour of whatever forces were operating.
I’m far more worried by the BBC, given the cloak of ‘fair and balanced’, by virtue of its licence fee ‘independence’ and mandate, and yet is a more virulent voice for the worst of Islamic forces than Al Jazeera.
With ‘Taqiyya'(lying and deception) being one of the most important weapons to camouflage Islam’s holy war on us infidels, the BBC really comes in to its own as serving Allah.
It sure doesn’t serve us.
And yet…
Just heard Imogen Foulkes give us the usual reclaimed liberal slurry about horsemeat found in German supermarkets and such(Today, 6.15 19.2.13). Evan chewed this grey gristle from Geneva for us c/o the hapless Imogen.
Yet-only two hours earlier , Imogen gave us a lovely little piece on SwissRail and its treatment of its passengers(as shit as Network Rail,basically…wrong tickets, rip off penalties etc)-but this was World Service stuff, and Today would not bother their arses with how widespread the ripoffs against passengers stymied by Stalinist functionaries and unaccountable quangos with wheelclamping tendencies , actually are. This might be a bit closer to home for their career prospects, than Occupy or toytown student protest, or a funky little riot,would it?
Far easier to slag off meat eaters that won`t vote for the return of Nick Brown…than to see an European-style revolt brewing over how the quangos and enforcers of crap laws are punishing normal people trying to get to work, and then to do some work without the EU hounding us.
I see an Arab Spring with a few quangos like those in the NHS, Transport etc on their way out …and the BBC continues to try to snuff stories that might get people genuinely angry. The BBC will always show itself to favour banlieu urchins and Pollys precious people, than the real victims of Eurowide nastiness…Swiss Rail to RailTrack!
The BBC clearly favours unelected quangos, and faceless stony-faced goons that will blame technology to hound the white middle class and the law abiding…do you think the BBC Trust would want to give us a story about this?…Imogen might, if she were allowed to ;at a civilised hour
You can lump in the NHS as well.
After all the negative comparisons the BBC does of the UK and anywhere else in Europe, Switzerland in particular, I was suprised how God-awful their towns really are. Hideous, dirty, grey dumps surrounded by beautiful countryside. Bit like Barnsley really.
Nowt wrong wi’ Barnsley. It’s the thinking man’s Doncaster.
Whilst I’d grant you that Barnsley is nicer than Doncaster, that is a bit like saying being stabbed is nicer than being shot.
Years ago the manager of the Job Centre in Barnsley was forced to apologise after likening the people of Barnsley to goblins in an article in the Sheffield Star. Another case of the truth hurts … ? 😉
Any town that produces someone like Ian McMillan, ‘poet’ and presenter of ‘the Verb’ (“Radio 3’s cabaret of the word”) deserves any rotten press it gets.
Time to do to Al-Jazeera what we did to Press Tv, PULL THE PLUG. They hanged Lord Haw Haw. Either piss or get off the pot.
That’s a shame but I don’t have to pay for Al-Jazeera.
As the left-wing takeover of the BBC happened so long ago, those that felt morally obliged to do so, left – the result is what we see and hear today.
Al Jazeera and INBBC have a strong political friendship.
Many ex-Beeboids, employed by the Emir of Qatar’s Al Jazeera, propagandise without guilt, for Islamic Al Jazeera, not least via Al Jazeera English, based across the River Thames from Houses of Parliament at:
Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel,
Westminster Tower, 3 Albert Embankment,
London
SE1 7SL.
INBBC was uncritical of Al Gore media sale to Al Jazeera in America. (And Beeboids are uncritical of Gore on everything.)
INBBC still has a ‘technical agreement’ with Al Jazeera over use of the latter’s material on e.g. Bin Laden.
Both broadcasters support Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Pamela Geller:
” AL JAZEERA TRIES TO WHITEWASH BLOODY RECORD”
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/02/pamela-geller-wnd-column-.html
The ex-beeboids now working for this nasty little channel are no more than hookers doing a trick for cash.
I was enjoying the Spiegel article and trying to take it seriously right up until where it said the Fox News is pursuing Rupert Murdoch’s agenda while CNN was somehow worthy of respect. CNN and MSNBC function openly as White House propagandists. It’s hard to take discussions of partisanship seriously after that.
Having said that, I wonder how many of the ex-Beeboids who went to work for AJ are leaving in protest of the bias, and how many are staying. I know which way I’d put my money.
Qatar has been following quite an ambitious foreign policy in the last year or so and seems to be allying itself with the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Even Al Jazeera – which played a crucial role in spreading the word of the 2011 unrest – is facing complaints of mounting and usually pro-Brotherhood bias. While the English-language service is seen as more neutral, the station’s Arabic service is widely viewed as openly espousing a pro-Muslim Brotherhood agenda.”
From an article I linked to earlier when Qatar was discussed;
‘Rich little Qatar dishes it out, and deserves whatever it gets in return.’
http://www.newenglishreview.org/bloga.cfm/blog_id/47527/Rich-Little-Qatar-Dishes-It-Out-And-Deserves-Whatever-It-Gets-In-Return
They probably see it as a way they can cling to power and keep the MB and others from fomenting revolution there. It won’t work for long, but they’ll try.
‘“a voice for the voiceless.”
Catchy.
Like ‘speaking for the nation’.
Plus, course, speaking peace unto others…whilst often doing the exact opposite.
Certainly unique.
I went to live and work in Qatar with an open heart and mind. I found the government to be devious and insidious. They will stir up trouble and pretend to be active peace-makers. Fund Gaza for bombs and supply no food. etc.
Al Jazeera the harbinger.