Al-Jazeera is focus of new film

Sun Sentinel ^ | 6/16/04 | David Folkenflik

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In the world of media, there is little that angers the Bush administration more than the influence of Al-Jazeera - the Qatar-based satellite television channel that features news reports drawing a broad Arab audience, often depicting Americans as the heavy. Just last week, the United States did not invite the Emir of Qatar to Georgia for a summit of major world leaders as a way of signaling displeasure with Al-Jazeera's coverage.

"People have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera, and if it were not slanted in ways that appears to be, at times, just purely inaccurate," National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice explained to reporters. "And so that's been the issue with Al-Jazeera."

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Note the "unbiased" AJ reporter trained by the BBC;

During the documentary, Hassan Ibrahim, a BBC-trained journalist, proved deeply skeptical of the United States and brushed off objections to showing footage of slain civilians. "Of course we will get grief from the Americans for showing these pictures because we will be inciting rebellion and we will be basically instigating anti-American sentiment," Ibrahim said. "I am sorry, they can't have their cake and eat it. I mean, yeah, OK, you are the most powerful nation on Earth, I agree. You can defeat everyone, I agree. You can crush everyone, I agree. But don't ask us to love it as well."

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The makers of this film are also being made darlings of the indie film festival circuit.

The left is antiAmerican and only too eager to see such works.