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Al-Jazeera Says Offices Torched in Cairo

Posted on by Nachum

(CBS/AP) PARIS - Al-Jazeera's offices in Cairo were stormed and torched and its Website hacked Friday, says the Pan-Arab broadcaster, while the top U.N. human rights official complained that media covering Egyptian pro-democracy protests are being arrested "in a blatant attempt to stifle news."

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera - widely watched in the Middle East - portrayed the attack on its office as an attempt by Egypt's regime or its supporters to hinder its coverage of the uprising in Egypt. Al-Jazeera said the office was burned along with the equipment inside it.



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To: Nachum

Finally. Someone somewhere finally giving journalists what they deserve.



by 2 posted onby bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)

To: Nachum

The headline made me smile. Now reporters can get a glimpse of the future if they push the US to civil war.



To: Nachum

Insurance scam ?



To: Nachum

There are no unbiased media outlets. “Journalists” ARE combatants when they cover stories with propaganda.



To: al baby

I am not condoning or encouraging violence. let me be clear. But if someone beats the BRD out of Shep Smith on camera I will watch it everyday on Youtube for a long time. :p



To: bigheadfred

Man, I hate to say it but that is my immediate reaction too. And I used to work for newspapers. The contempt they hold us in and serve up on a daily basis-—often without even an inkling of just how offensive it is-—will be turned back upon them, in loss of business, loss of respect, even an absence of reasonable compassion. They are tasting their just desserts.



To: Nachum

I keep hearing that the Egyptian authorities are confiscating cameras, arresting and assaulting reporters and blocking reporting. Yet, the video feed and talking heads continue to broadcast from Tahrir square without interruption. I am sure there are some assaults and incidents, but I question if there is an overt attempt to shut down coverage.



To: Nachum

Maybe just maybe they are onto the FACT that the journalists are trying to stir things up, on the side of the rioters, wanting Mubarak out — and are IDIOTS and know not of what they speak. Not safe to lie everywhere — we know how to blow them off, but the Egyptians just don’t seem to LIKE them. If the UN is uptight, it helps clarify the situation even more.



To: GeronL

There are no unbiased media outlets. Journalists ARE combatants when they cover stories with propaganda. Too long for my .sig. Pity.

Today is a good day to die.

I didn't say for whom.



by 10 posted onby The Comedian (It's 3am all over the planet, and nobody's been answering the phone since 2008.)

To: dblup

I can’t stand to watch the news anymore. I’m no English major, so I don’t really care about my syntax, composition, grammar, etc. all the time and I do errors, hillbilly, ebonic, whatever, when I feel like it. But there is a LOT of crap out there. I suppose if you can’t pass the fourth grade you can become a journalist. No offense.



by 11 posted onby bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)

To: dblup

I had a paper route when i was a kid



To: Nachum

Al Jazeera as well as Obama are pushing for the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Egypt. Obama is a traitor to the US.



To: Nachum

What a shame!



by 14 posted onby Carley (ARAB STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN AMERICA'S LEFT)

To: Nachum

Freepers predicted that journalists were going to catch it

because they wre going to Cairo NOT to reprt the news, BUT to carry Obama’s water, as they have at home. That point was made in several interviews tha John Bachelor had on his live radio show on Thursday evening. He was telling them that hey,there is NO news to cover in Cairo (you are there to create propaganda in Cairo, and unlike in the USA, that can get you killed in Cairo).JUST GET OUT ( Do not be used by Obama , its not worth your life.) Obama is puffing on the news...do this , do that..Do not attack protesters, do not attack the press..Mubarak can easily take care of this “protest”. If Mubarak wants it to go away, he just has to send in the army.Mubarak is playing Obama like a fish, just sitting back watching.They can only jump up and down and act like idiots for only so long. Mubarak is waiting for the revolutionaries to turn violent or go away. If the revolutionaries turn violent, then they will be utterly destroyed. This is why Obama is so desperate, the revolutionaries WILL become violent eventually. Let them. Buahahahahahahaha! Play him like fish Honsni, Israel and the whole of Europe support you.



To: Nachum



Today is a good day to die.

I didn't say for whom.



by 16 posted onby The Comedian (It's 3am all over the planet, and nobody's been answering the phone since 2008.)

To: al baby

Me too dude. I sold Grit, do you remember that? I worked for daily papers later on when I went to college and temporarily...lost my grit.



To: Candor7

Stay Mubarak! Don’t let anyone or anything force you out of office against your will or against your better judgment. Mubarak should do what he thinks is right not what he is forced to do.



To: The Comedian

How about: There are no unbiased media outlets, Journalists ARE combatants.



To: bigheadfred

No, you’re absolutely right. It’s after you do some learnin’ that you get the hell OUT of journalism.... Truth is I liked to write but couldn’t stomach the phony pose that I was some sort of standard that “ordinary” citizens were supposed to answer to. I ended up drifting toward doing only feature stories on people who did work I admired, or had written books I admired, or knew stuff about hunting and fishing that I wanted to learn. Finally I just left the biz altogether...mister, the atmosphere in a newsroom is even more poisonously leftist than it seems on the page or on the air. p.s. You “do ebonic”-—heheh...I’d like to see that...



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