Al Jazeera's Beirut news bureau is currently losing key staff due to 'bias' in the channel's stance on the conflict in Syria.
According to Al Akhbar, the bureau's managing director, Hassan Shaaban reportedly resigned last week after leaked emails revealed his frustrations over the news channel's coverage of Syria, according to a source within the television network.
RT reported that a source told the Lebanese paper Al Akhbar that Al Jazeera’s Beirut correspondent Ali Hashem had quit over the channel’s stance on covering events in Syria.
A source apparently told the Lebanese press that "… his position [which] changed after the station refused to show photos he had taken of armed fighters clashing with the Syrian Army in Wadi Khaled. Instead [Al Jazeera] lambasted him as a shabeeh (implying a regime loyalist).”
The newspaper advised that Ali Hashem was also infuriated by Al Jazeera’s refusal to cover a crackdown by the King of Bahrain while twisting its Syria angle.
“[In Bahrain], we were seeing pictures of a people being butchered by the 'Gulf's oppression machine', and for Al Jazeera, silence was the name of the game,” he said.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321062
Al Jazeera channel losing staff over 'bias' on Syria
Moderators: Moderators, Junior Moderators
Forum rules
This General Forum is for general discussions from daily chitchat to more serious discussions among Somalinet Forums members. Please do not use it as your Personal Message center (PM). If you want to contact a particular person or a group of people, please use the PM feature. If you want to contact the moderators, pls PM them. If you insist leaving a public message for the mods or other members, it will be deleted.
This General Forum is for general discussions from daily chitchat to more serious discussions among Somalinet Forums members. Please do not use it as your Personal Message center (PM). If you want to contact a particular person or a group of people, please use the PM feature. If you want to contact the moderators, pls PM them. If you insist leaving a public message for the mods or other members, it will be deleted.
Al Jazeera channel losing staff over 'bias' on Syria
-
- SomaliNetizen
- Posts: 719
- Joined: Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:33 am
Re: Al Jazeera channel losing staff over 'bias' on Syria
meh, nothing new. it's an established fact that Aljazeera broadcasts its mideast coverage according to US discretion.
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
- 5 Replies
- 735 Views
-
Last post by LobsterUnit
-
- 6 Replies
- 497 Views
-
Last post by Tanker
-
- 1 Replies
- 478 Views
-
Last post by original dervish
-
- 28 Replies
- 1088 Views
-
Last post by CoolPoisons
-
- 1 Replies
- 426 Views
-
Last post by FAH1223
-
- 34 Replies
- 1211 Views
-
Last post by onesalahadin
-
- 0 Replies
- 263 Views
-
Last post by Daanyeer
-
- 20 Replies
- 656 Views
-
Last post by BABYGIRL123
-
- 10 Replies
- 1048 Views
-
Last post by grandpakhalif