[lbo-talk] Cole on Alijazzeera

[Chuck Grimes]

Aljazeera Arabic has long since lost a lot of its previous journalisic 
standards, once its head, Waddah Khanfar, was fired in favor a member of the 
royal family. Some 22 Egyptian journalists just resigned from Aljazeera in 
Cairo in protest against its Fox-News-like biases in reporting on recent 
events.

Aljazeera English usually still does a good job, having a different 
editorial line and generally good reporters, often former BBC or ABC 
reporters.

But their publication of a frankly brain dead op-ed feature article 
purporting to show US support for anti-Morsi political forces is sheer 
conspiracy theory and very bad, unbalanced journalism.

http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/aljazeeras-conspiracy-brainless.html

Slowly over the last year or so AJE got less and less edgey and more and 
more fluff, and I stopped watching it in a compulsive way, and reverted to 
just checking up on this or that.

So the explains it and why AJE reporting on June 30 was nearly void of 
coherent content.

Doug had a good interview with Gilbert Achcar that helped with a view on 
June 30 and current events worth listening to.