Profession de foi d'Al Jazeera

[Barem]

Where Al Jazeera makes a difference is in relation to the filters of 'sourcing' and 'flak'. With state funding, Al Jazeera, amongst other Arab Satellite channels, has asserted that the 'subaltern can speak' to paraphrase Spivak. Why? Sourcing is no longer reliant on the traditional media 'sisters' that determine the daily news and headlines. Nor is it enmeshed in 'clientelistic' relationship with big business and Western sources of knowledge and power.

News sourcing now derives from the locale and is by locals. It is passionate, sensational, even subjective, but most of all it is powerful. This branding has been very difficult to emulate. The amount of money spent cannot deliver it. For, Al Arabiyya runs a more expensive satellite channel and yet has a much lower share of the Arab viewing publics. The inception of Al Jazeera is a moment akin to breaking the monopoly of the seven petroleum big sisters in the 1960s and 1970s.

The headlines are no longer determined by Reuters or Agence France Presse. Similarly, the news and the world are no longer filtered through the Euro-American mind-set. Al Jazeera has placed a decade of war, violence and counter-violence, terrorism, authoritarianism, dissidence, and brutality in the living rooms of Arab, Middle Eastern and world viewers. It is not then surprising that Al Jazeera's news bothers many Arab regimes from Morocco to Jordan, as well as Israel and the US.

Thus Al Jazeera is protected from the flak lobbies that have the news scripted, manipulated and manufactured according to interest. Indeed, the source of pressure is different: to measure up to a new standard or moral commitment of indigenous and even a 'Southern' take on the news. Especially, where there are causes that must be highlighted. […]

Al Jazeera, amongst other factors, has heralded an era of what I call 'post-modern Arabism'. It is non-territorial, polycentric and multi-vocal.

Source : http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opini…5517676789.html

[pilgrim]

Si tu pouvais regarder al jazeera en arabe, ça serait bien plus intéressant. Tu pourrais avoir le point de vue sur le monde, des pays du moyen-orient.

[Barem]

EN anglais, c'est déjà intéressant.

Al jazeera permet d'accéder à une information claire et détaillée au niveau internationale, mais j'avoue que son point fort est la description des relations politiques entre pays du proche orient, par exemple la rumeur selon laquelle Israël aurait voulut espionner trois pays proches de ses frontières malgré les accords de paix contractés avec ces pays, etc.

Au niveau économie, je ne peux rien vous dire, de toute façon, je préfère me fier à Reason , The economist, ou encore Objectif Liberté, etc

[TODA]

Si tu pouvais regarder al jazeera en arabe, ça serait bien plus intéressant. Tu pourrais avoir le point de vue sur le monde, des pays du moyen-orient.

Et pour ceux qui comme moi, ne peuvent pas regarder al jazeera en arabe, une petite revue de presse, quelques compte rendu, résumés,bien ciblés, voire sous titrage de vidéos seraient accueillis à gourmandise….

Je pense que le rédacteur en chef de Contrepoints sera de mon avis…

[pilgrim]

Si tu as le lien d'une émission qui t'intéresse je peux m'en charger.