NP: al-Jazeera

[Michael Bailey]

 Henry M asked wrote:
> Since when does al-Jazeera pull away from showing graphic depictions of
> terrible wrongdoings?
>


in the article, here's what they say their policy is --
"In accordance with al-Jazeera's code of ethics, given the video does
not add any information that is not already in the public domain, its
news channels will not be broadcasting any of its contents."

interesting policy.

Many a "news" station could cut its broadcast day to 5 minutes.  I
suspect Al-Jazeera fudges on that one themselves.

(however, I don't watch AJ -- for all I know, they might just
broadcast only exclusives and scoops)

(if so, wow)

as a bleeding-heart liberal, I gotta say I do think the stuff that I
sometimes hear about that they do report (a-and maybe, are you
suggesting, over-report, eh?) - it's probably true that stuff is
under-covered by Western media)






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