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The politics of Al Jazeera…
Wadah Khanfar‘s apparent ousting from the board of Al Jazeera came after intervention by Mahmud Abbas and an Arab intelligence service. At least that’s the story that ran earlier this month in Jordanian magazine Al-Majd.The Jordanian weekly’s sources have this to say: …the removal of Khanfar from the Al-Jazeera board of directors was the first…
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Cramer for Al Jazeera English?
A tiny rumour a couple of weeks back on Jossip (I’m not a regular) had former CNN International boss Chris Cramer heading to Al Jazeera English by September. If there were even a shred of truth to it, would it be to replace Nigel Parsons or Steve Clarke? Both men might feel they’d served their…
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Playing business politics with TV news
I own a few Sky shares so I wasn’t exactly thrilled when James Murdoch decided to buy a chunk of ITV. Still, the following announcement had me choking on my chips: Ofcom’s advice is that there are public interest issues, in relation to sufficient plurality of news provision for both cross media and television news…
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The best line on journalism…
My old favourite professional aphorism is this: a journalist’s duty is to betray. It neatly and bitterly encapsulates the moral, emotional and intellectual problems of reporting. But it’s not a tag to be repeated with pride, more of a dirty industrial secret. Last night Mohamed Chebaro, of Al Arabiya and a veteran of international news…