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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Bias and Terrorists
by Lee

You know how there are left-wing people in America who, despite the obvious and well-documented leftward tilt to our media, still claim that there is a conservative bias to American reporting?  Meet their soulmates.

Al Qaeda’s wing in Iraq has slammed Al Jazeera television, saying the satellite channel often criticised by Washington was siding with the United States in its reporting on the violence in the Arab country.

An Al Jazeera spokesman rejected the criticism of its coverage, saying it was balanced.

“Where are you heading, Jazeera? Why this hostility toward the mujahideen (holy warriors)?” the group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said, according to a statement posted on an Islamist website.

“All the American army statements are carried and accepted but no one carries the mujahideen’s side.”

It said Al Jazeera had reported US statements that its forces had killed 50 insurgents in an operation underway in western Iraq, but did not broadcast the group’s statement that it had shot down eight US helicopters.

“Where is the claimed balance?” the statement said.

It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the Web statement, signed by the group’s spokesman.

Let us not forget, gentle reader, that it was not too long ago that the Tehran Times was calling al-Jazeera a Zionist plot.  Let’s hope that al Qaeda targets the al-Jazeera offices next, that should give them some balance in their reporting.

Posted by Lee on 06/30/05 at 09:08 AM in The Press Machine  • (2) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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