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"Reporters Without Borders" criticize the censoring and harassment of Al-Jazeera by..
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the US, Canada, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Tunisia. In that list obviously the US and Iraq can be seen as one.
Personally I find it quite strange that a free-press-country like the US uses its influence in Iraq to ban Al-Jazeera, the only uncensored and credible arabic news-network in the middle-east.
Here is the BBC-report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4215199.stm
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Originally posted by Taliesin:
the US, Canada, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Tunisia. In that list obviously the US and Iraq can be seen as one.
Personally I find it quite strange that a free-press-country like the US uses its influence in Iraq to ban Al-Jazeera, the only uncensored and credible arabic news-network in the middle-east.
Here is the BBC-report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4215199.stm
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Credible?!?!?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH that just dicredited your entire post... good day. 
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Reporter w/o borders have ties with the CIA. It's a fact.
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Calling Al-Jazeera credible is exactly as much of a stretch as calling FOX News credible. Take this however you will.
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Al Jizzeera is a terrorist mouthpiece.
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Originally posted by Millennium:
Calling Al-Jazeera credible is exactly as much of a stretch as calling FOX News credible. Take this however you will.
News with a political slant that plays in to what the audience wants to hear.
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Originally posted by Millennium:
Calling Al-Jazeera credible is exactly as much of a stretch as calling FOX News credible. Take this however you will.
I see it similar, but still compared to the other arabic networks that are censored and always uncritical regarding their own governments, Al-Jazeera is the closest to free press. Al-Jazeera is often critical of the repressive arabic regimes and also tackles social, economic and even sexual topics and problems in the arabic world, and more important offers uncensored news from around the world in the quality-league of CNN.
Sure it has a pro-arab-people-bias but CNN and BBC have similar biases towards american and european people. The problem is then that american and european people read or see the Al-Jazeera-news and see the bias, because Al-Jazeera doesn't report from an american or european point of view and are mostly absolutely blind regarding the bias of their own news-sites at home.
The US/Iraq have banned Al-Jazeera from Iraq because Al-Jazeera was the only network reporting with cameras from the most dangerous places and show what war means to civilians. CNN and BBC are chained in that regard to Bagdad, because that's relatively safe and the US-army is there to protect them, but Al-Jazeera's reporters are arabs and can therefore go more easily to the dangerous places like Falluja, Ramadi, ... and even film from within the insurgents.
The banning of Al-Jazeera occured shortly before the big military-operation should start in Falluja. The US feared that Al-Jazeera-reporters would film from within Falluja and show the destruction as well as the use of notorious weapons like Napalm and cluster-bombs.. and off course the death of civilians..
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Originally posted by Taliesin:
The banning of Al-Jazeera occured shortly before the big military-operation should start in Falluja. The US feared that Al-Jazeera-reporters would film from within Falluja and show the destruction as well as the use of notorious weapons like Napalm and cluster-bombs.. and off course the death of civilians..
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Or maybe, realizing that AJ is a mouthpiece for the maggots we're trying to eliminate, the military feared the reporters would get information on troop position and plans to the terrorists. Even U.S. reporters are censored with respect to what info they can disseminate.
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Originally posted by Millennium:
Calling Al-Jazeera credible is exactly as much of a stretch as calling FOX News credible. Take this however you will.
But FOX News reporter have a much easier time at work, apparently.
I personally don't care about what Al Jazeera has to say, they should have the same access to sources as any other news team. (Same is true of FOX News, German Bild reporters, etc.) It's part of what Western democracies believe it.
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