Al-Jazeera's Inside Story: Arab Summit a Media Travesty

Al-Jazeera's Introduction (30 March 2008)

The Damascus Arab League Summit was meant to be one of unity, but the growing rift between states sees the Arabs once again edging towards more division and polarization.

Opinion

2 April 2008

By HRM Deborah

This installment by al-Jazeera was found to be a travesty for the Qatar media organization. It is now more understandable why the early part of March, the Jewish people in Palestine chose to boycott this network.

This broadcasting network is falling more into the ideals of western propaganda, then impeccability one usually associates with an Arab news network.

By the example, below on their coverage of the Arab Summit is a good example of this failing network, the information was not just bias, terminology of the current situation archaic, as well as speaking of unity when the program even in their dialogue did not do so.

In addition, representing head’s of government in the Middle East, it used to be deemed inappropriate to insult anyone, but this program certainly did in this installment.

Numerous people are no longer taking Al-Jazeera as their leading news source in the Arab world and I now can understand why, they would be just as good off as turning on any propaganda news program in the West for there is no difference.