22 Al Jazeera Resignations over Egypt Bias

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Reports suggest that 22 member of staff have resigned from the Egyptian arm of Al Jazeera after complaining of pro-Muslim Brotherhood bias within the organisation

The 22 staff resigned on Monday over what they alleged was coverage that was out of sync with real events in Egypt, according to a report by the Gulf News website.

Anchor Karem Mahmoud announced that the staff resigned in protest against "biased coverage" of the recent events in Egypt. He explained that there was a lack of commitment and Al Jazeera professionalism in media coverage, stating, "the management in Doha provokes sedition among the Egyptian people and has an agenda against Egypt and other Arab countries.”

Mahmoud added that the management used to instruct each staff member to favour the Muslim Brotherhood.

He said that “there are instructions to us to telecast certain news”.

You can read more here.

When I read this story at the Commentator I was wondering how the BBC would report it, especially as they have a similar pro-Muslim Brotherhood bias.

Simple answer - they didn't report it at all.

Just like they didn't report many of the attacks and threats of further violence perpetrated by Morsi supporters, nor that the army has now closed the MB headquarters after finding weapons there

Clearly they didn't want to attract attention to coverage of this kind being seen as biased.

I see their article on Egypt today:- Egypt's army warns over disruption after Morsi deposed has a video and two pictures.

The video has the caption Pro-Morsi supporters tell Lyse Doucet they are willing to die for their cause

Then a picture with this caption Supporters and opponents of the army's move have been amassing on the streets of Cairo.

And a picture of an Egyptian woman with this quote underneath:

Morsi came through ballot boxes, and he should only leave in the same way”

Funny how no opinions or quotes by those who are very happy to be rid of the rule of this foul organisation.

The fact that journalists have resigned at AL Jazeera because they were well aware of the insidious bias going on there, while BBC carries on with 'business as usual' shows just how more immoral, unethical, and insidious are the BBC journalists.

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I see 'Yorker' at the Commentator has been struck by the same observation:

Why haven't BBC jounalists followed Al Jazeera journos in resigning over bias?
BBC journalists shamed by Al Jazeera journalists who know what free speech means

by Yorker

It's because they have no principles; and because "objectivity" just means accepting the same old, tired, boring received wisdoms of the liberal-left. For most BBC journalists; it's just a job.

See here what Al Jazeera journalists had the courage to do, and then read on and imagine that BBC types would do the same.

And, as (possibly the best) Daily Telegraph columnist Janet Daley reminds us:

"The BBC is now in serious trouble. A sensible step would be to accept that it is just one more broadcaster in an enormous market place of alternatives. That means cutting back what it does (and what it charges) to a core of services that commercial rivals are less likely to offer. But the larger question is what we do about the spurious notion of “neutrality” which is required by law in all broadcast news and current affairs.

"The United States used to have similar legislation: known as the “fairness” rule, it decreed that airtime for a spokesman on any issue had to be balanced by a spokesman for the other side. The effect was exactly the same: a Left-liberal consensus dominated all of the mass media networks’ presentation of political issues. When the fairness rule was finally revoked, a thousand flowers bloomed: talk radio exploded on to the scene, as did the famous cable news channels such as Fox News (on the Right) and MSNBC (on the Left) which were blatantly partisan and enormously vibrant."

I'm not going to think this through for you; you do it!