Al Jazeera
Who formed this television broadcast station? Do you feel it a political tool used by Muslims to broadcast hate for the USA?
I do not have access to this station to answer this without being biased, however, it does seem like they are most willing to publicize all acts and announcements given them by militants. This leads me to believe that they do favor the messages of islamists as far as announcing them, but I am not sure if this is a media strategy for fame and money or really for a 'cause'.
It is definitely interesting that they are always privy to such sensitive materials and footage, that no one else can get their hands on. My belief is that if they can acquire such materials that they be held accountable for harboring these terrorists and be forced to assist in the capture and destruction of the terrorists and their organizations. However, since they exist and function in the middle of the Islamic nation, they will also have a lot of protection, especially from Western powers.
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My belief is that if they can acquire such materials |
"Why Did You Want to Bomb Me Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair?"
Al Jazeera Director Demands More Information on Secret Memo
Days after the Daily Mirror cited the memo that allegedly reveals President Bush told Tony Blair in April 2004 of his desire to bomb Al Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar, Managing Director of Al Jazeera, arrived in London to petition for a meeting with Blair to discuss the leaked memo. We speak with Khanfar about his demands for more information about the secret memo.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/03/154219
Well, well, well. Al Jazeera opened a new channel in English to give their version of the events going on in the Middle East.
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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Arabic television station Al Jazeera launched an English-speaking channel on Wednesday to report world news from a Middle East perspective and challenge the dominance of Western media. The station, which has angered Washington and some Arab governments with its reporting from Iraq, said it wanted to give a fresh voice to under-reported regions round the world. "We are trying to expand our audience beyond the Arabic-speaking world, and enter the English-speaking world," said Wadah Khanfar, director general of the Al Jazeera Group. "One of our goals is to reverse the flow of information to the south," he said, arguing that the Middle East and developing nations have until now not had a voice of their own. In doing so, the new channel mirrors projects in France, Russia and Africa that aim to give a regional perspective in English, the dominant global language, but offer little commercial reward to their owners. "The model is the BBC's World Service," Steven Barnett, a professor of communications at the University of Westminster, said. "The Foreign Office didn't fund that out of generosity. It funded it because it was spreading the voice of Britain. "It was not forcing propaganda down people's throats but it was still bringing to bear a perspective that was essentially British and spreading it around the world," he told Reuters.... |
Washington Embraces Al Jazeera:
Cowardly US cable providers refuse to grant the channel a distribution platform, largely for fear of being perceived as supporting or enabling a network that for years has been portrayed negatively by US officials. Ref. Source 6