Israel's communications minister said on Sunday he was seeking a possible closure of Al Jazeera's local bureau, and accused the Qatari news station of pro-Hamas incitement and of exposing Israeli soldiers to potential attack from Gaza.
Not that Al Jazeera isn’t biased, and the organization does receive Qatari government funding…
But they are relatively fair and balanced in terms of coverage and takes. In a conflict like this, they will platform both the Israeli government and Hamas, and have their own or other local reporters provide an accurate as possible picture of the ground situation, where either side in the conflict will try to convince people differently.
People in the Middle East and internationally rely on Al-Jazeera. Removing them means that people will not be as informed of what’s really happening, and will cause some to turn to more biased and extremist channels.
Big caveat: AJ ENGLISH is very different from their Arabic organization.
Honestly, I just saw one of the BEST interviewers, ever, on AJ ENGLISH this past week.
The information in the interviews themselves were nothing groundbreaking, but the AJ hosts UNWILLINGNESS to let either the Hamas spokesperson OR the former Israeli defense minister simply evade his questions was breathtaking and SHOULD be the standard for this format.
The AJ host is Marc Lamont Hill, and here is a link:
Again, and I cannot stress this enough, this was phenomenal work by Mr. Hill, massive respect.
He was combative, but not aggressive, just extremely assertive, and very skilled at active listening in order to adjust his questions when the subjects tried to stonewall and dodge. Top notch. A+++
Not that Al Jazeera isn’t biased, and the organization does receive Qatari government funding…
But they are relatively fair and balanced in terms of coverage and takes. In a conflict like this, they will platform both the Israeli government and Hamas, and have their own or other local reporters provide an accurate as possible picture of the ground situation, where either side in the conflict will try to convince people differently.
People in the Middle East and internationally rely on Al-Jazeera. Removing them means that people will not be as informed of what’s really happening, and will cause some to turn to more biased and extremist channels.
Big caveat: AJ ENGLISH is very different from their Arabic organization.
Honestly, I just saw one of the BEST interviewers, ever, on AJ ENGLISH this past week.
The information in the interviews themselves were nothing groundbreaking, but the AJ hosts UNWILLINGNESS to let either the Hamas spokesperson OR the former Israeli defense minister simply evade his questions was breathtaking and SHOULD be the standard for this format.
The AJ host is Marc Lamont Hill, and here is a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgoUq69NZ30
Again, and I cannot stress this enough, this was phenomenal work by Mr. Hill, massive respect.
He was combative, but not aggressive, just extremely assertive, and very skilled at active listening in order to adjust his questions when the subjects tried to stonewall and dodge. Top notch. A+++
Why do you type like a MAGAt?
I was gonna say, for reporting outside of their biased regions, many ppl ranked them almost on par with Reuters, and that’s a lot.
Idk how many ppl will realize that, but closing them will be a big loss of fair reporting world wide.