Reuters reports from Baghdad that Iraq’s government on Wednesday accused Al Jazeera television of helping to “spread death and destruction” in its reporting.The channel was banned in Iraq two years ago but was allowed to resume operations recently. The story went...
Al-Jazeera English covered the “anti-war” rally in Washington on Saturday, highlighting the appearances of Jane Fonda and Rep. John Conyers. Interestingly, the story quoted Hani Khalil, “a member of the United for Peace and Justice Group,” as saying the protesters wanted...
It is getting to be a fairly common mistake — citing something on the wrong Al-Jazeera web site in order to make a point about the controversial channel endorsing something or other. This time, WorldNetDaily claims that a Jimmy Carter letter to Jews...
Al-Jazeera’s bias in favor of Hamas is being alleged by the Fatah Palestinian organization. The Israel Insider has the story. So does Frontpagemag.com We noted this fact last July in one of AIM Reports: “Al-Jazeera has played a clear role in the...
How did cell phone video footage of Saddam’s execution appear on Al-Jazeera television just hours after Saddam was hanged? AP said the “leaked” video showed the former dictator being “taunted” near the end, with some witnesses shouting “Go to hell!” before...
The Weekly Standard has taken note of our criticism of the new channel. In an article, Louis Wittig finds Al-Jazeera English (AJE) guilty of airing ”deceptive and terrorist-promoting segments.” One example: “ON ONE OF THE DAYS I was watching, the London desk...
The Evening Standard reports that “British staff working for the new English language Al-Jazeera channel drank so much alcohol that they were ordered to undergo special ‘cultural awareness’ training on how to behave in a Muslim country.” The story says these...
The New York Post, which is not always reliable, claims that Al-Jazeera International “has secured carriage agreements with cable, satellite, telecom and broadband video providers, according to spokesman Michael Holtzman.” It quotes Holtzman as saying, “We’ve gotten carriage across the board. We...
GlobeCast – a subsidiary of France Telecom – is the only cable or satellite provider that is beaming Al-Jazeera International’s signal into the U.S. And it takes a very unusual satellite dish to pick it up. Still, it’s a major victory in...
A UPI story began: “Most Americans can’t get Al Jazeera English, the new news network that U.S. cable and satellite TV does not yet offer. But Pentagon employees can.” It was about the channel being on closed circuit Pentagon TV. One...