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Al Jazeera

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
medias portrayal of the war insufficiently bloody.
E-mail
TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at
cwaters@mediaresearch.org
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