[Charles Martel]

There's an interesting comment in that pro-Al Jazeera "documentary" Control Room, which sounded only half-joking. I don't recall the exact words, but the idea was that when journalists left their positions with the BBC, their next stop was usually the Al Jazeera network.

Yep, that all fits.

[dervish]

and vice versa. BBC hired the former editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Helal, of Al-Jazeera TV to "train" its Middle eastern journalists.

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6704

[Bombay Bloke]

Ex-BBC journalists all head to al-Jazeera!? Excuse me, but that is very funny. And total nonsense.