Aljazeera Arabic has long since lost a lot of its previous journalisic standards, once its head, Waddah Khanfar, was fired in favor a member of the royal family. Some 22 Egyptian journalists just resigned from Aljazeera in Cairo in protest against its Fox-News-like biases in reporting on recent events.
Aljazeera English usually still does a good job, having a different editorial line and generally good reporters, often former BBC or ABC reporters. But their publication of a frankly brain dead op-ed feature article purporting to show US support for anti-Morsi political forces is sheer conspiracy theory and very bad, unbalanced journalism. http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/aljazeeras-conspiracy-brainless.html Slowly over the last year or so AJE got less and less edgey and more and more fluff, and I stopped watching it in a compulsive way, and reverted to just checking up on this or that. So the explains it and why AJE reporting on June 30 was nearly void of coherent content. Doug had a good interview with Gilbert Achcar that helped with a view on June 30 and current events worth listening to. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
