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"Don't bomb us" say Al Jazeera staff

.. | 24.11.2005 21:42 | Anti-militarism | Indymedia | World

Al Jazeera media staff have begun a campaign blog denouncing reports that the US government considered bombing their offices.

"We are not afraid of your threats - we are journalists. And there thousands like us around the world. You may be able to kill some of us - but you will never kill us all."

This is the statement on the new website set up by Al Jazeera journalists protesting against US attacks on their staff, including the killing of reporter Tariq Ayoub in April 2003, and ongoing threats that have been made against them.

The site is an effort to show the human face of the people who President Bush reportedly wanted to attack, simply because he did not like their coverage of the war in Iraq.

The Al Jazeera journalists say that they are not intimidated by the reports and are demanding to be told the truth about them.

The website features pictures of the Al Jazeera staff, along with the caption: "These are the men and women who bring you the news at Al Jazeera. We have a diverse staff complement. Our people are made up of dozens of nationalities"

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Fascists Target Civilians

24.11.2005 23:18

And we're supposed to believe that the deaths of so many unembedded (uncontrolled) journalists in Iraq, the shelling of the Palestine Hotel, and the attempted assassination of Italian journalist Sgrena, who covered the US War Crimes at Fallujah, were all "accidents"? This ends the "moral" argument of the Useful Idiot supporters of this Fascism that "our side doesn't target civilians".

Sad


Al Jazeera should change its ways then.

25.11.2005 10:29

If Al Jazeera wants to avoid getting bombed, then it should change its ways then. It should stop acting as a propaganda mouthpiece for Osama Bin Laden and recruiting tool for Al Qaeda. That is not journalism it is propaganda. It should start reporting the facts instead of selected biased, out of context anti-America reports. I thought that a journalists job was to be totally unbiased and impartial and only report the news, not add personal, biased, spin to it all the time.

Realist


Realist

25.11.2005 12:40

It's getting a bit sad now. Leave it.

Sim1


Realist, you're not much of a...er....realist are you!

25.11.2005 12:43

The western media is full of propoganda. The only reason you choose to ignore that fact is because it doesn't directly effect you.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that Al jazeira is a propoganda machine but where under international law does it say only members of the G8 are permitted to use propoganda?

Sparjy The Clown


It's the way Realist tells 'em

25.11.2005 12:50

You thought the job of journalists was WHAT?! *wipes hysterical tears from eyes*

Doubled over with mirth


Tosser

25.11.2005 13:17

Realist,you really are sad...you are either paid by neocon/new labour goons,or you are a tow the line "i love the govt." type of fool,who believes everything those in power want you to believe....it must be great to be a totally mind controlled Troll for the evil facsists who run the show.it must be great to actually believe that the govt are looking after you....
Keep eating the aspartame,fool.

Silicone Synapse


The Fascists Are The Bad Guys

25.11.2005 22:56

And we're supposed to believe that the deaths of so many unembedded (uncontrolled) journalists in Iraq, the shelling of the Palestine Hotel, and the attempted assassination of Italian journalist Sgrena, who covered the US War Crimes at Fallujah, were all "accidents"? This ends the "moral" argument of the Useful Idiot supporters of this Fascism that "our side doesn't target civilians". This is the real issue here.

"If Al Jazeera wants to avoid getting bombed, then it should change its ways then."

You mean, start working for the Fascists in DC, like the tightly-controlled Western press? And let's not forget that this is how the US treats all journalists, from Sgrena to those staying in the Palestine Hotel, who do not self-censor and LIE to the public about the reality of Bush/PNAC's failed, illegal War of Aggression.

"That is not journalism it is propaganda."

So ... you would rather they act more like the sources which uncritically repeated the LIES coming out of DC about Iraq before the war, the ones which cheerleaded the Fascist Madmen at the helm?

As a journalist myself, I have to point out that Useful Idiots like yourself never seem able to actually give examples of anything they've done incorrectly, you simply rely on Islamophobia and innuendo. That's Slander/Libel.

Watching the documentary "Control Room", I was struck by something. AJ was called "biased" because they reacted emotionally to the unprovoked bombing of Iraq, and the killing of countless thousands of civilians, men, women, and children. It reminded me of the coverage of 911 here in the West. It's not biased. It's human.

And it's interesting to see that when proof is given that the Fascists at the helm consciously targeted civilians, in an attempt to keep the reality of the war from the same people they LIED to about why they wanted it in the first place, the Trolls try to shift the focus.

Goebbels would be proud ...

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