Would you like to bomb us?

These are the men and women who bring you the news at Al Jazeera. We have a diverse staff complement. Our people are made up of dozens of nationalities...

Come and have a look at who we are (here is our

flickr photoset). We are not afraid of your threats - we are journalists. And there thousands like us around the world. You may be able to kill some of us - but you will never kill us all.

In relation to my former post, I post this one: I believe Al Ajzeera is a good thing. It opened up the press freedom in the Middle East and tries to report facts. It is no longer the local new against the Western news. There are inbetweens now.
As a result BBC and France television started an news channel over there. Al Jazeera's reaction? Open up an English Al Jazeera channel...

On the other hand when you read stuff like this on their site you wonder:

Dispossessed, deprived of their birthright and denied basic human rights and freedoms, millions of Palestinians daily endure a rare fate. Just the simple act of surviving through the day under occupation requires enormous resilience in the face of a superior war machine, supported by the world's single superpower. Yet Palestinians have never lost hope that one day they will be able to live in freedom, peace and prosperity in their own independent homeland
You wonder if this is real journalism. In my eyes, journalism is more neutral.

Posted on November 24, 2005
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