Friday, September 06, 2013

Further decline of Aljazeera

"Meanwhile, discontent over Al Jazeera’s Egypt coverage is also growing within the organization, which has seen multiple resignations in recent months.
Just last week, four journalists working for Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and its Egypt affiliate submitted their resignations in protest against the channel’s policies last week, Gulf News reports. Previously, 22 members of the Mubasher Misr channel had resigned over what they called biased coverage. 
Inside Al Jazeera English (AJE), concerns of bias center around the removal of senior news presenter Jane Dutton on Aug. 14, following an interview with a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to AJE staffers who spoke to Doha News on the condition of anonymity, the channel’s executive producer Hani Masri pulled Dutton off air mid-bulletin because she asked questions that he felt cast the Muslim Brotherhood in a negative light. One former employee said:"