Comments on: Why Many Lebanese Are Shunning Aljazeera

By: Best Of 2007 | The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog

Best Of 2007 | The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:20:06 +0000

[...] • Nassrallah warns the Army not to interfere in Nahr el Bared• The Lebanese are turning Aljazeera off •Mr. Jumblat explains why.• Opinion: The Army should be tough in Naher el baled.• Early skepticism. Does the Army have a plan?• Meanwhile, the bombs go on: Verdun , Aley [...]

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 26 May 2007 00:26:39 +0000

This is another ray of hope, maybe now a few more people will begin to understand what Israeli’s deal with in the media on a constant basis.

By: ken

ken — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:20:26 +0000

Hurts when it happens to you doesn’t it? Get used to it if you want to take back your nation from outsiders and keep it that way. the reality is that it can’t be done any other way and as soon as you do what has to be done, post-modern fringe socialists and their useful idiots will label you cruel and ruthless like Israel and the US.

By: Merhi

Merhi — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:01:26 +0000

50 people sampled and of curse Mustafa has to post what a sunni says: typical biased Mustapha!

I hope mustapha is happy that the murderers: fatah al islam, that HARIRI and co. aid to come to lebanon to create tensions with shia, and now the fanatics of Hezbollah are laughing as sunnis kill eachother.

Admit that Mustapha: Hairiri and his Saudi backers are F***HEADS!!!!

By: Video: Walid Jumblat Castigating Aljazeera | The Beirut Spring

Video: Walid Jumblat Castigating Aljazeera | The Beirut Spring — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:45:33 +0000

[...] The PSP leader, like the rest of the Lebanese, is not happy at all with Aljazeera. He accuses it of being complicit in the crimes happening in Lebanon. He also addresses directly the ruler of Qatar and asks him not to take sides (here’s why the Lebanese are fuming from Aljazeera’s coverage) [...]

By: never was a fan

never was a fan — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:25:51 +0000

al-Jazeera has been biased since its conception! Not only are they sensationalists but they twist the truth to suit their point of view. I’m so glad people are FINALLY coming to realize that.

By: Dania

Dania — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:24:09 +0000

I stopped watching or reading aljazeera since the july war and how they covered the entailing events and later on the obvious, consistent and blatant bias against pro march 14 leaders. This is mock journalism at its best. Yesterday’s coverage of the nahr el bared camp was outrageous and shameful when we know that the Lebanense army or any lebanese dont have any intention in hurting the palestinian refugees. In addition they showed the fighters in an “exclusive” footage yet once again, scanting religious slogans and preparing to fight… all it lacked was that presenter al qassem cheering them on!

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:35 +0000

When I was in Israel I watched Al Jazeera for the first time (the English version as I do not understand Arabic). And I watched a report in which they were focusing themselves on the international media(read: American media). They concluded that they were biased/partial/one-sided and often not telling the truth at all (or only part of the truth). Fine. The irony however was that later on there was a report on Iraq and wherein they went onto the streets to interview American civilians asking them about their opinion on Iraq. A good journalist would try to get all kinds of opinions into their report. Not the Al Jazeera journalist. Only Americans who disapproved with the war were in the picture and the harsher they were on their own government the better.
Now who should criticise who, I wonder?

I was also shocked to see how much was stressed on “the bad guys are America and Israel and the rest are good” (Sudan is good? Iran is good? Afghanistan is good? Cuba is good? Zimbabwe is good?). That they refer – again – to these countries when talking about the Lebanese government does not surprise me.

Al Jazeera is nothing more then a piece of shitty journalism. Any journalist connected to this channel should be ashamed for calling him/herself a journalist.

By: Jeha

Jeha — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:02:36 +0000

Wlak, kellon ertit Awmieh “en fin de course”…

Whenever I hear their coverage, it feels like they are channeling Saadeh with a touch of “salafism”…

By: Michael J. Totten

Michael J. Totten — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:37:52 +0000

Now you understand why Americans hate Al Jazeera. They are doing to you what they have been doing to us all along.

You have my sincere sympathies.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:17:03 +0000

Walid Jumblat just shit all over al-Jazeera, live, on al-Jazeera!

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:06:35 +0000

Hussein,

I believe it is a moral duty for a reporter to focus on the plight of innocent civilians caught up in the middle of this.

The Palestinians who have been killed or injured in that camp are not the only innocents. The soldiers who weer ambushed and murdered were also innocents. If you really want to look at what that word means, then I’d ask you if somebody who willingly serves as a human shield for a group that commits murders is truly innocent? How about somebody who knowingly supports and shelters a group whose intent is (clearly) to victimize their innocent neighbors? An innocent? It would be so easy for groups like this to be dealt with, if they couldn’t find any civilian populations willing to give them refuge. That is the real issue, in my opinion.

By: Hussein

Hussein — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:20:04 +0000

Even though I think AlJazeera’s coverage is biased, whether it is the June war or today, I believe it is a moral duty for a reporter to focus on the plight of innocent civilians caught up in the middle of this.

Innocent civilians are dying and if reading such reports disturbs some Lebanese readers, then they need to do some serious revamping of their ethical principles.

It seems to me pretty hypocritical for some to expect the world citizens to identify with innocent Lebanese civilians during the summer war, but are now far removed and unable to relate to people whom they regard as “different”.

We are humans first and foremost. All tags of nationality/race/ethnicity/faith/…. which we never choose but always seem to define who we are, are a mere collective illusion we maintain because our simplistic lazy minds are incapable of reaching a more sophisticated outlook to the world around us.

Peace.
A Free Autonomous Individual

By: JoseyWales

JoseyWales — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:00:43 +0000

Hi M/Laz

Good to hear from you. I am not sure I made the attributed comment. Must be someone else (I’ll think about you question though).

By: M.

M. — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:59:38 +0000

Troubling. There are too many “M”’s on these blogs :)

JW, of course, not everyone saw the summer war in the same light, and thus not everyone is being hypocritical when it comes to this battle. I still remember a comment you made in your post last summer – something to the effect of [paraphrasing] “this [summer] war will continue until they are placed in a strategic position to negotiate,” which was a point I had found interesting at the time.

However, what is the strategy that you see in this fight?

(this is Laz btw)