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Man this stinks. Al Jazeera America is reliable and has done some solid reporting over the years. It wasn't afraid to call a spade a spade. Next to Bloomberg

Man this stinks. Al Jazeera America is reliable and has done some solid reporting over the years. It wasn't afraid to call a spade a spade. Next to BloombergTV it's the only news channel worth watching. On a tin-foil hat aside, but the timing on this; coming a few weeks after they ran the story about performance enhancing drug use by some big name athletes...I can't help but think the two are somehow related.

ptaipale 11y ago
Having seen and understood just a few fragments of Al Jazeera behaviour in Arabic, I have some difficulty in trusting it in English either. E.g. just today came up this post which points out how Al Jazeera used a picture: https://twitter.com/ranaharbi/status/685357579615232000 https://twitter.com/ranaharbi/status/685357579615232000 They stole a picture taken by photographer Serkan Gülsen in Istanbul in 2007 from his Flickr feed https://www.flickr.com/photos/serkangulsen/771185410/in/dateposted-public/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/serkangulsen/771185410/in/date... and now (January 2016) published it as evidence of suffering in the town of Madaya. It's likely that the suffering in Madaya is more than horrible, but why be so lazy as to forge a picture like this? Are they actually trying to destroy their reputation, or do they just trust that the Arabic audience will not notice? And if it does that in Arabic, do I trust it in English?