Al Jazeera TV Network Announces 'Code of Ethics'
Middle East Newsline and WorldTribune.com ^ | 7/18/04 | special report
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Al Jazeera is getting religion, journalistically speaking. The controversial leading satellite television channel in the Middle East has announced a code of ethics to ensure balanced reporting.
The United States has accused the Doha based television channel of promoting the insurgency against the coalition in Iraq with inflammatory anti-US propoganda and even coded messages to terrorists.
Al Jazeera released the code of ethics during the closing session of a media conference in Qatar, Middle East Newsline reported.
The code contained several commitments by the Qatari owned channel including a guarantee of what the document termed 'balanced and sensivitve reporting.'
US officials said Al Jazeera was used by Al Qaida to broadcast propaganda as well as encoded message to operatives.
A leading cleric and member of Al Qaida, Sheik Yusef Qaradawi, has promoted Al Jazeera in his weekly program.
A senior Al Qaida correspondent, Tayseer Alouni, has been awating trial in Spain for suspected links to Al Qaida.
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