Althouse: "Al Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison in Egypt."

August 29, 2015

"Al Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison in Egypt."

"Everything was pointing towards exoneration today. I was coming here for good news. They keep on disappointing us with this unbelievable judicial system. It’s unacceptable."

9 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...: Maybe it won't be so bad if they let him serve his term at the Marriott.; 8/29/15, 7:39 AM
Michael K said...: It is the New York Times. I consider them as trustworthy as al Jazeera.; 8/29/15, 7:42 AM
Big Mike said...: Excuse me, but I thought that we were supposed to respect different cultures. Isn't that one of the tenets of multiculturalism? I guess only until that different culture sends journalists to jail.

Could you imagine how depopulated the news room at the Times would be if the Bush administration could send their journalists to jail for publishing false news about the United States?; 8/29/15, 8:20 AM
Big Mike said...: Make that "could have sent"; 8/29/15, 8:21 AM
traditionalguy said...: Journalists supporting, aiding and abetting the political party seeking to destroy the political party that came back and wins are not getting away with "we are neutrals " BS . They get gigged as a message to the head guys that sent them.

Ask Kelley how doing Ruppert Murdoch's wet work turned out.; 8/29/15, 8:45 AM
Achilles said...: Egypt out of all the middle east countries is the only one that isn't a total festering shithole where women have become slaves or worse. Why? Because they are rounding up Muslim nutbags and if not mass executing them tossing them in jail.

These men had citizenship in countries where women are equals under the law and they were favorable to the Muslim brotherhood. All women should be cheering this outcome and they better get behind Egyptian efforts here because anyone that supports the Muslim brotherhood wants them to be property.; 8/29/15, 8:47 AM
holdfast said...: There are very few journalists who can claim to be neutral of even impartial. A Jazeera bet on the Muslim a Brotherhood, and they crapped out. Time to pay the house beeyotches.; 8/29/15, 10:24 AM
Robert Cook said...: "There are very few journalists who can claim to be neutral of even impartial."

There are no journalists who are not dimwits or mere newsreaders who are actually impartial. And why should a journalist be required to be "neutral" or "impartial?" As long as a journalist's biases are out in the open, and as long as he or she is scrupulous in reporting the facts, discerning readers should be trusted to make their own judgment on the worth of the reporting and the validity of the journalist's slant.

It is the pretense of impartiality that is pernicious. Readers can be taken in by writing that is presented as "objective" but that is carefully written with key words intended to direct a reader to certain understandings or conclusions about a story and away from others. Journalists who refuse to point out factual errors or lies in statements put forth by politicians, businesspersons, and others they cover, who merely report in a "he said," "she replied" manner--on the self-serving (or self-deluded) justification that fact-checking and pointing out errors or untruths is "slanting" the reporting--are worse than useless...they convey misinformation in the name of "neutrality."; 8/29/15, 10:42 AM
holdfast said...: Strangely, I mostly agree with Crazie Cookie here. Unfortunately for them, Al Jazeera is biased in favor of the Islamo-Terrorist Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Al-Sissi is engaged in kicking their asses.; 8/29/15, 4:24 PM