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Al-Jazeera's biased coverage of the Syrian uprising

Started by Cain, March 04, 2012, 08:20:21 PM

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Cain

tl;dr version: don't trust Al-Jazeera's curiously sympathetic coverage of the rebels.

http://angryarab.net/2012/03/02/flash-syrian-tv-and-raw-propaganda-footage-from-aljazeera-and-cnn/

QuoteIt seems that Syrian regime had agents among the rebels; or it seems that the Syrian regime obtained a trove of video footage from Baba Amru. They have been airing them non-stop. They are quite damning. They show the correspondent or witness (for CNN or from Aljazeera) before he is on the air: and the demeanor is drastically different from the demeanor on the air and they even show contrived sounds of explosions timed for broadcast time...

PS This is really scandalous. It shows the footage prior to Aljazeera reports: they show fake bandages applied on a child and then a person is ordered to carry a camera in his hand to make it look like a mobile footage. It shows a child being fed what to say on Aljazeera.

http://angryarab.net/2012/03/03/aljazeera-leaks-3/

QuoteThis is rather explosive. You know how low Aljazeera has sunk when Syrian regime TV stations have a field day with the shoddy journalism and fabrication procedures of Aljazeera. It seems that people inside Aljazeera have leaked raw footage and pre-air reports to someone in Syrian regime TV. I am not surprised of the leak at all: I am in contact from people inside Aljazeera who are disgusted by the propaganda work of the network in the last few months. ... I know how those things work and they know that I know. The footage that are being shown show staging of events of calling a civilian an "officer" in the Syrian army, of faking injuries and feeding statements to people before airtime, etc. Aljazeera seems to be writing its own professional obituary. I don't know how it can really resurrect itself again. It is mortally wounded. I know that there are people in the network who are pained about what is happening but royal orders are royal orders in the network and no one dare to disobey. I am told that orders came down to the effect that no half-position would be tolerated and that categorical adoption of the Qatari foreign policy on Syria is a job requirement.

http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/4525/

QuoteThey also confirmed an allegation Ibrahim had reportedly made in one of her emails: That Ahmad Ibrahim, who is in charge of the channel's Syria coverage, is the brother of Anas al-Abdeh, a leading member of the opposition Syrian National Council. He allegedly stopped using his family name to avoid drawing attention to the connection.

That the brother of an SNC bigwig is the one who is running their coverage of Syria should tell you everything you need to know.

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Is the SNC actually influencing the rebels at this point or do they plan on elbowing after (and if) the Syrian government is toppled? Whats the general opinion of Syrians of the SNC, would the rebels be likely to welcome an SNC government?
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I initially read this as "Al-Jazeera's biased coverage of the Skyrim uprising" and I was like, "Al-Jazeera is going there too? REALLY?"
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Cain

Quote from: Prince Glittersnatch III on March 05, 2012, 12:32:29 AM
Is the SNC actually influencing the rebels at this point or do they plan on elbowing after (and if) the Syrian government is toppled? Whats the general opinion of Syrians of the SNC, would the rebels be likely to welcome an SNC government?

There is almost no connection between the rebels and the SNC according to Nir Rosen, whose reporting I trust (he's half-Iranian and fluent in the local dialect of Arabic - so he blends in very easily).  According to him, they are mostly disorganized gangs and local resistance groups, with little national coordination at all.  There is a significant Islamist/Al-Qaeda component to some of the more violent groups as well, who would likely clash with the more western-leaning SNC.

I'd post the article, if I could remember where I read it.  But I'm sure Google would find it easily.