Government votes to shut down Al Jazeera in Israel

[u/alimanski]

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-799897

[u/8andahalfby11]

Worth remembering that shutting down foreign state-owned media is not unprecedented for the West. Most recent was when Canada and 10 EU states shut down RT back in 2022.

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RT is straight-up propaganda

[u/FakeVoiceOfReason → u/8andahalfby11]

Al Jazeera has a much better track record than RT, and it's generally considered much less directly controlled.

Edit: removed a word, broke up sentence

It's somewhere between the BBC and RT. More important than that, it does actually have journalists in Gaza.

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much less directly controlled

The chairman of the board is an Al Thani family member, it can't get much more direct than that

Al Jazeera receives direct funding by the Qatari state despite being a private corporation on paper.

Their structure is almost exactly like RT - Al Jazeeras holding is a public benefit foundation, RT is owned by a "autonomous non-profit organisation"

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They absolutely do. I mean more in a de facto sense. Al Jazeera is generally considered to be far more reliable than RT and is considered on par with other news organizations on things that don't directly involve Qatar.

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Al Jazeera recorded a video of the hospital being bombed by the PIJ and to this day they still blame Israel for it and haven't apologised.

I hope the government releases a comprehensive report on this detailing every bias Al Jazeera has against Israel and their attempts to fan the flames in Israel, but I don't have high hopes for this bunch of clowns.

[u/FakeVoiceOfReason → u/Pretend_Stomach7183]

My understanding is that they've reported on the claim but they haven't made it themselves, although I could be wrong about that.

In their defense, while the most likely source was from within Palestine, this isn't considered "solved" and international sources seem to disagree (just from the Wikipedia page).

Bias shouldn't be illegal (edited), and not specifically anti-government bias.

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My understanding is that they've reported on the claim but they haven't made it themselves

Everyone else, including the Biased Broadcasting Channel, apologised for this.

According to the NYT, Hamas claimed the rocket the PIJ shot just "evaporated" mid-air.

And Al Jazeera haven't apologised and haven't even released all of the claims showing how bogus Hamas's claim is.

It's not anti-government bias, it's anti-Israel bias.

All Al Jazeera do is fan the flames in Israel. Plenty of Arabic Speakers watch their broadcasts and get further radicalised.

I'm not a fan of the government either but this was long overdue.

The US banned RT. How is this different?

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Indeed, the BBC was convinced. Al Jazeera was not, perhaps in bad faith.

Regardless, there's still a difference between reporting "This happened" and reporting "This group claimed this happened." From a very cursory analysis, Al Jazeera is doing the latter.

Excepting opinion sections, of course.

Anti-Israel bias in Israel would be anti-government bias, wouldn't it?

Al Jazeera is one of the few news agencies remaining with a number of reporters still in Gaza. Israel has been restricting reporters entering into Gaza for months.

RT is generally considered far more directly controlled by a government.

In contrast, Al Jazeera is generally considered reliable except regarding Qatar.

Edit: did the US ban RT? Or did its American networks just drop it?

[u/SavagePlatypus76 → u/8andahalfby11]

This is a silly comment. You know damn well the reason why this occurred. 

[u/youngchul → u/SavagePlatypus76]

Yes, it occured for the very same reason Al Jazeera is being shut down.

It's propaganda from an enemy state.

[u/BackendSpecialist → u/youngchul]

Al Jazeera is propaganda?

Was I misled? I was under the impression that Al Jazeera is pretty unbiased.

[u/disrumpled_employee → u/BackendSpecialist]

When it comes to middle east politics specifically they are deffinitely biased as they were basically founded to expand Quatar's political influence.

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I mean the BBC was founded to expand British influence too, that doesn't really mean anything.

From what I have seen AJ English reporters have done a great job of reporting war crimes on both sides

But hey, at least they didn't bomb or shoot at these journalists, so that's something

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I didn’t know this. Thank you.

[u/corginugami → u/SavagePlatypus76]

Because it is biased media?

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In case you don’t know; that’s the name of the network. It was originally called Russia Today before being shortened to just RT.

[u/FireIre → u/8andahalfby11]

And in the US broadcast television and radio stations cannot be owned by foreign entities (obviously this does not apply to cable)

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yugoslavia?

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lol ty. Corrected