{"id":31709,"date":"2013-07-15T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=31709"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:00:08","slug":"al-jazeera-journalists-resign-en-masse-to-protest-biased-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/07\/al-jazeera-journalists-resign-en-masse-to-protest-biased-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera Journalists Resign En Masse to Protest \u201cBiased Coverage\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned Arabic-language broadcaster, suffered a big hit on Monday [8 Jul 2013] when 22 journalists resigned en masse to protest what they said was the network\u2019s \u201cbiased coverage\u201d in Egypt.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aljazeera-270x300.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31710 alignright\" alt=\"aljazeera-270x300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aljazeera-270x300.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/region\/egypt\/al-jazeera-staff-resign-after-biased-egypt-coverage-1.1206924\" >GulfNews.com<\/a>, anchor Karem Mahmoud said the resignations were due to a perceived lack of commitment by Al Jazeera to professionalism in media coverage. He said that \u201cthe management in Doha provokes sedition among the Egyptian people and has an agenda against Egypt and other Arab countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud added that management used to instruct the staff to favor the Muslim Brotherhood, which took over the country during the \u201cArab Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Haggag Salama a correspondent of the network in Luxor, Egypt, resigned after accusing the network of \u201cairing lies and misleading viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is that it\u2019s about time they realized this, considering Accuracy in Media <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.org\/search\/?cx=004572606133216989943%3Ao6bhvwaftm0&amp;cof=FORID%3A11&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Al+Jazeera&amp;sa=Search\" >has been saying essentially the same thing<\/a> about Al Jazeera for more than six years.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.org\/don-irvine-blog\/al-jazeera-journalists-resign-en-masse-to-protest-biased-coverage\/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&amp;utm_campaign=8fe26a87b9-email071213&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c4ddfc8d9d-8fe26a87b9-224228485\" >Go to Original \u2013 aim.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned Arabic-language broadcaster, suffered a big hit on Monday [8 Jul 2013] when 22 journalists resigned en masse to protest what they said was the network\u2019s \u201cbiased coverage\u201d in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}