Posted on 06/16/2015 6:47:45 AM PDT by pabianice
The former head of Al Jazeera America's documentary unit announced a lawsuit against her former employer on Thursday, charging the American branch of the Qatar-based news network with a vitriolic bias against Israel, as well as discrimination against non-Arabs and women.
Shannon High-Bassalik, who formerly worked with CNN, NBC and MSNBC, sued the company for discrimination after being fired in February only half way through her three-year contract, reports The Guardian.
She charged the company with showing a blatant pro-Arab bias both in terms of employment and news coverage, with the most intense bias coming out against Israel.
High-Bassalik said the company's investigative unit head tweeted "Israelis are like Hitler," showing the pronounced antagonism of the supposedly professionally neutral news company.
And during last summer's counter-terror Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, she reported being told the mission was to portray Israel as the villain, and give an unfair slant in favor of the Arab and Muslim perspective of the conflict.
Likewise she was told many Arabs think the US staged the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America as a pretext to launch a war against Arabs in the Middle East, and that Al Jazeera America should follow this conspiracy theory as a guiding tenet.
(Excerpt) Read more at virtualjerusalem.com ...
“a vitriolic bias against Israel, as well as discrimination against non-Arabs and women”
This can be said about 98% of the media.
Good. Them kick them the hell out.
Not sure who to clap for. The muslim PS or the liberal Dhimmi POS.
Copyright/trademark violation. The mainstream media have made bias against Israel and against the Jews one of their main marketing points. A relative newcomer like Al Jazeera has no right to poach on MSNBC/CNN/ABC turf.
Let’s not forget what POS sold his cable slots to Al-Jazeera either . . .
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