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...that Jews were behind the September 11 attacks, more biased than Ann Coulter, a popular Fox pundit who told America that liberals were really to blame for the tragedy, seems like a useless exercise anyways. The place to look to uncover bias will always be off camera. In Al-Jazeera??s case, you’ll find that literally all of the station’s top executives—the people who draw its editorial line, produce its documentary pieces and run its day-to-day operations—have a larger than normal bone to pick...
...that Al-Jazeera does on the Arab-Israeli conflict and on the current war in Iraq. Pieces about the Arab-Israeli conflict often lack a serious exploration of the Israeli side of the story, although recently Al-Jazeera has started to cover official Israeli press conferences more diligently. Al-Jazeera??s coverage of Iraq is no different. Where CNN runs special reports entitled, “The Struggle for Iraq,” Al-Jazeera??s English website features reports with the slightly more succinct title: “Iraq Under Occupation...
...Jazeera??s critics need to recognize two things. The first is that a homegrown, Western-style media outlet is not going to arise from the pebbled Qatari soil full-formed. The vast strides that Arab media have made since Al-Jazeera first began broadcasting in 1996 are impressive. Before Al-Jazeera, nearly all Arab media were state-controlled. Now the city of Dubai is selling space in its “Media City” at a brisk pace. Obviously, there is more work to be done. Al-Jazeera??s staff must learn to suppress their...
More important, however, Al-Jazeera??s critics must understand that media and media consumers have a symbiotic relationship. When U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell demands that Al-Jazeera be more fair to America in its coverage of the Iraq war, he might as well demand that the entire Arab world treat the United States more fairly. Media reflect the society they are born from—the society that they serve. You can’t change the underlying assumptions of a media outlet without changing the underlying assumptions of its consumers. To make Al-Jazeera kinder...
Sweating outside of Al-Jazeera??s Doha headquarters, I reflected on all this; and then I trudged inside to meet the station’s Editor-in-Chief. He told me something that will test whether media outlets change to meet the demands of their consumers once and for all: Al-Jazeera is launching an English channel this coming spring...