Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down news network Al Jazeera following the passage Monday of a sweeping law allowing the government to ban foreign networks perceived as posing a threat to national security.
Al Jazeera Media Network, which has produced dogged, on the ground reporting of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, slammed the decision in a statement, vowing it would not stop the network from continuing its “bold and professional coverage.”
Blocking Al Jazeera “marks an alarming escalation, and Israeli efforts restrict the freedom of the press and further limit the access that citizens of the world have to the daily realities in Israel and Palestine,” Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine Director Omar Shakir told CNN.
The White House also called reports of the move to shutter Al Jazeera “concerning.”
Unfortunately democracy index was released few weeks ago, but would like to see how this change would affect it.
Despite the fact AlJazeera spreads bullshit most of the time, a law like this can be easily used against other journals, as well.
Aljazeera provides some of the greatest coverage your slander against them is unwarranted.
They lack objectivity.
If you still believe there’s a non biased newspaper I have very bad news for you and Santa isn’t real either.
Every newspaper is somewhat biased but aljazeera is biased more than the others.
When most people considers them reputable the problem may be with you. Maybe you’re too biased to view Al Jazeera objectively?
Yea you should watch that channel in Arabic. Then claim they are objective. Here’s some video explaining what they like to do frequently. Plus it’s a state owned news agency… Qatar state owned no less. “Reputable” is not the word.
I don’t think the problem is with me. Feel free to check media bias fact check about aljazeera.
Have you checked it? From the looks of it it gets a more “mixed” rating because Al Jazeera has a separate opinions category. Opinions articles are almost always subjective and more prone to bias so that shouldn’t come as a surprise. However when it comes to actual coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict they seem to be pretty accurate. Netanyahu wouldn’t be trying to shut them down if they weren’t.
It gets mixed reviews because of several not corrected fact checks and strong bias towards Qatar. By the way, the country it is located in is not even free.
The opinion page also uses emotional language.
So to summarize, it literally belongs to the same category as daily wire. Do you consider Daily wire credible?
Who would you recommend as a reliable, objective source for news?
None is 100% objective but associated press, for example, is far better than AJ.
Most of the stuff AP reports is usually reported by AJ first because they have more journalists in the area bruh
Obviously Aljazeera has more journalists there but that does not change the fact their articles provide a lot of bias.