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Asserting that "it is manifestly untrue that the Arab media are dominated by a single perspective," Lynch points out that often the most hostile critics of Al-Jazeera neither speak Arabic nor bother to watch the programs they castigate. In contrast, Lynch has amassed a wide range of network data, allowing him to analyze "what Arabs themselves have actually said." They include the full transcripts of 967 episodes of five of the most important Al-Jazeera talk shows, a separate database of those episodes that dealt specifically with Iraq and another containing thousands of opinion essays published in Arabic newspapers. His conclusion: Arabs are "relentlessly bombarded" by their media not with crude propaganda but with diverse "political arguments."
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Does Al-Jazeera provide unfiltered news? Is it broadcasting more accurate and in-depth war coverage of the war in Afghanistan than American networks? Is it revolutionizing Middle East media? And what are its biases? In this interview, veteran Jordanian journalist Lamis Andoni discusses the controversy surrounding Al-Jazeera.
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Al-Jazeera knows this is a bunch of bunk because its own reporter Yosri Fouda interviewed the al-Qaeda architects of 9/11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and co-authored a book about it entitled Masterminds of Terror. Peter Maass wrote a fascinating story about Fouda’s contacts with al Qaeda in an article in the New York Times magazine entitled ”When Al Qaeda Calls.” Ron Suskind’s new book, The One Percent Doctrine, takes the story one step further, alleging that Fouda’s information about the possible locations of both al-Qaeda operatives led to their ultimate capture. Suskind claims the Emir of Qatar provided the information to then-CIA director George Tenet.
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New York, October 10, 2007—An Al-Jazeera cameraman held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay for five years without charge is in deteriorating health as a result of a hunger strike, his lawyer told the Committee to Protect Journalists. The lawyer ... revealed that the U.S. military, in a recent hearing, cited cameraman Sami al-Haj’s professional training for the Qatar-based satellite news channel as evidence of involvement in terrorism.
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“It’s not about Al-Jazeera, it’s about their shock from bin Laden,” said Diaa Rashwan, an Egyptian expert on Islamic militant groups. “For the first time, bin Laden, who used to be the spiritual leader who gives guidance, became a critic of al-Qaida and is confessing mistakes. This is unusual.”
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One of the many peculiar things about Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arabic-language news channel launched in 1996, is that it has brought news and information to people who, for the most part, are unable to act on it politically. It has been an oasis of free (or apparently free) expression in a desert of dictatorships. It can stir up anger, but not anger of the kind that can be sublimated by voting a local politician out of office, let alone by changing a government. In that sense, there has always been something artificial about it, as if it had taken up residence in a realm of pure theory.
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