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Al Jazeera

2004

• May 21 -- Even More Publicity for Al-Jazeera
Caryn James touted a documentary on Al-Jazeera and a forthcoming PBS film on Iraq war reporters who were not – horrors – embedded with American troops. The Times was so eager to promote the al-Jazeera film that it reran excerpts of an earlier A. O. Scott review of the film from April 2.

• April 2 -- Rumsfeld's "Glass House"
Reviewing a documentary on the controversial Arab network Al Jazeera, A.O. Scott likens its anti-Americanism to remarks by Donald Rumsfeld, as if both are culpable in spreading propaganda.

• February 18 -- "Balanced" Al Jazeera?
A story on the Arab news network Al Jazeera sports this interesting headline: "For Al Jazeera, Balanced Coverage Frequently Leaves No Side Happy." That's the same "balanced" network whose Baghdad reporter once said: 'We were targeted because the Americans don't want the world to see the crimes they are committing against the Iraqi people.'"

 

• April 7 -- We Want Blood
Another Times reporter complains about the lack of televised war gore, quoting left-wing scholar Susan Sontag and an Al Jazeera spokesman who find the media’s portrayal of the war insufficiently bloody. 

 

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