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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Fed up with Aljazeera

Is it a coincidence that Aljazeera’s ‘news’ in English are totally different from what is made available in Arabic?

This morning the Arabic-speaking website discussed how, let me transltate it literally, “Britons are now turning to Islam to settle their court cases”. The article claims that an increasing number of non-muslims in the UK choose to go through Islamic tribunals because they are ‘less complicated and less formal’ than civil courts. Why is this (rather significant isn’t it?) piece of information not available on the English website?

Yes mass media, including CNN and the BBC, manipulate public opinion and I totally mistrust them. But Aljazeera does a few more things in addition: it fulfills a religious-political agenda, it often makes news up, it abuses of the emotional aspect of events involving casualties, it turns the most mundane news into religious controversies, and it promotes radical ideas. Just go through any set of readers’ comments and see the kind of horrors that are taken as ‘feedback’. Look at the sort of questions asked in Aljazeera polls and the response they get. It’s absolutely appalling.

posted by Tarek at 13:27

10 Comments:

  • tu te trompes sur un point important AJA et AJE ont des redactions totalemet differentes et des equipes differentes donc le contenu sera normalement different. je suis reellement etonne que tu sois etonne ;)
    de quel agenda religieux tu parles?
    on espere un petit feedback de ta part
    IK

    By Blogger Imperator, at 1:34 PM  

  • 7ata heya 9a3da lik w leli kifek AlJazeera!! ya3tek 3asba lik w leli ma y9olekch ya3tek 3asba

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:12 PM  

  • Pourquoi blamer Al-Jazeera? Est-ce parce qu'elle montre des choses que les autres medias ne montrent pas?

    J'ai toujours entendu des gens qui attaquent Aljazeera parce qu'elle montre les morts Palestiniens pendant les attaques Israeliennes.

    Vous voulez quoi? Qu'on les cache? Qu'on pense que ce n'etait pas grave? Que ce n'etait pas de l'horreur?

    C'est pratiquement la seule chose que j'appreci chez Aljazeera, il y'a des choses que le monde doit voir. Et Aljazeera n'hesite pas de les montrer.

    Je sais que les barbus en profitent, mais AlJazeera doit continuer a nous informer, meme si cela arrange les barbus.

    J'ai l'impression que tu as repris l'article de Abdelwaheb El Meddeb, l'intello Tunisien qui cartonne en France au nom de la laicite et de la paix au proche orient. Le voila:

    http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/
    2009/01/12/
    pornographie-de-l-horreur-par-abdelwahab-meddeb_1140741_3232.html

    By Blogger Soufiene, at 6:41 PM  

  • ربّي يهديك يا طارق، ما تعرفش إلّي الجزيرة قريب تولّي الركن السادس من أركان الإسلام وأنّ من إنتقدها عدوّ من أعداء الأمّة والمتآمرين على مستقبلها؟؟

    باش الواحد يفهم نوعيّة التلاعب بالمعلومة إلّي تعمل فيه قناة الجزيرة لازم يكون عنده حد أدنى من الثقافة الإعلاميّة ومن الثقافة تو كور

    @ Soufiene:
    يا سفيان حسب ما فهمت طارق ماهوش ينتقد في الشي إلّي تحكي عليه إنتي، ظاهرلي موضوع النقد متاعو واضح حسب ما جاء في التدوينة

    @ anonymous:
    وإنتي بالأمثل خويا الغالي (سامحني طارق جاوبت في بلاصتك) ههه

    By Blogger Big Trap Boy, at 9:49 PM  

  • Toutes les chaînes d'infos comme la BBC, CNN et AlJazeera comme tu l'as bien dit jouent avec les news pour leurs propres intérêts ou les intérêts de leurs donnateurs. CNN jouent sur le patriotisme des américains, AlJazeera joue sur le facteur religieux des arabes. et je crois que la BBC est la plus honnête parmi ces chaînes mais ça reste relatif.
    Les pseudo barbus vont comment à te lyncher tarek :))))

    By Anonymous Profilo, at 8:45 AM  

  • J'abonde dans ton sens. Il y a quelques mois Al Jazira avait affiché sur son site (en arabe) un sondage comportant la question suivante :

    Etes vous POUR ou CONTRE les récents attentats en Algérie ?

    Edifiant...

    Ancien Combattant

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:47 PM  

  • Tarek,

    I disagee with you totally. Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Arabic have very different audiences and very different teams, so the discourses they produce are naturally different. Just like Newsweek has a US edition, a European edition and a Middle Eastern edition.

    You are misleading the English reader with your translation, because you're hiding a crucial part. A more complete translation should start with "The Times [newspaper] of London said that increasing numbers of non-muslims are referring their cases to Islamic Sharia courts in the UK to settle their disputes..". Therefore, Al Jazeera didn't even make the claim, it said that a UK paper said so.

    The Al Jazeera Arabic article is simply a summarised translation of an article in The Times which is at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6721158.ece.

    This piece of information is not on Al Jazeera English site because it wouldn't be making any added value to republish in English an article which apeared at its source in English. However, posting a translation to an Arabic-speaking audience is quite useful.

    Can you please name one occasion where Al Jazeera "made news up"? For that matter, can you please substantiate your list of accusations with some actual cases: the Al Jazeera archives are still on the web and you can run a search whenever you like.

    What's wrong with comments on aljazeera.net web site? It illustrates the very different points of view of about 300 million Arabic speakers.

    On a second reading of your post, I'm affraid to say that it has traces of the very deeds you attribute to Al Jazeera.

    As to the suggestion that a recent poll on Al Jazeera asked whether you are for or against bombings in Algeria; the only poll on aljazeera.net which refers to Algeria over the past year is asking whether you are for or against re-opening of Algerian-Moroccan borders. Can the gentleman who posted the comment provide a reference please?

    I wish we all learnt something from Al Jazeera professionalism.

    -Imed

    By Blogger Imed Chihi عماد الشيحي, at 6:48 PM  

  • Imed-

    Yes, aljazeera does make things up. I can't find the article in the Times can you? When they say that "the Times says it" it is only a way of giving some credibility to the rubbish they spread around as 'news'. It worked on you and you're a happy reader, that's brilliant, but I am and will remain very wary of that channel.

    By Blogger Tarek, at 11:19 PM  

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    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:29 PM  

  • Merci dernier anonymous, ton commentaire est vachement interessant, j'ai tout compris.

    By Blogger Soufiene, at 12:35 PM  

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