Silent Coup At AlJazeera?

Media Channel by Friends of AlJazeera | Jun. 6, 2007 (Opinion)

The Qatari Government seems to be shifting away from the "hands off" approach that it had towards AlJazeera over the last 10 years and now looks like it will exert more influence over the channel. Journalists at AlJazeera are speculating that this could be a huge blow to the editorial independence that made AlJazeera the most watched news channel in the region. Full Story »

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Topics: Ethics in Journalism, Media Ownership
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Posted by: Posted by Graham Wilkins - Jun 7, 2007 - 2:32 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Graham Wilkins (review), Terry Hinshaw (review), Kaizar Campwala (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Jun 7, 2007 - 7:10 AM PDT

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Kaizar Campwala
2.1
 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

Without named sources or evidence of editorial shift, this piece doesn't rise above rumor.

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Graham Wilkins
4.0
 by Graham Wilkins - Oct. 1, 2008

Covers an important issue on maintaining the independence of this news source

Graham posted this story.
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Terry Hinshaw
1.2
 by Terry Hinshaw - Oct. 1, 2008

An unreliable report by a most unreliable organization...one that seldom ever sees anything bad in Islamic terrorism.

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