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Burgess COMMENTARY The story about the UN story rewrite seems plausible ... but the 'slant' to the news by every media organization on the planet is a reflection of ownership and reporters and editors ensuring they have job secutiry. These do not become 'stories' but the result is quite insidious and frankly disturbing and dangerous. Up to now most news stories told by AlJazeera where I have personal knowledge and experience stand up as most likely being right ... while almost all the other news flows tend to be awfully superficial if not just plain wrong.
I am not sure where 'news' will be in 10 years time ... but my expectation is that it will be an 'Open News Knwoledge Network' with 'ownership' of news channels very much a thing of the past. This will require a completely different business model, but what exists at the moment is dying. AlJazeera is, in my view, the best news service on the planet, but very costly to operate ... and accoringly not sustainable.
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Al Jazeera Slashes News Staff Across The Globe, As Focus Shifts To Sports
Bloomberg Businessweek writes about a new course for Al Jazeera, the news and media organization founded by the ruling family of Qatar. BW says that the company has been making substantial cuts in news across the world, including to Al Jazeera English in the U.S., even as its spends millions on on sports television rights. Al Jazeera has spent nearly half a billion dollars on soccer rights in France so far, plus an undisclosed amount to broadcast in other markets. More deals may be on the way. England’s Premier League, home to popular teams like Manchester United, last week began taking bids for the U.S. rights to broadcast its games, and analysts expect Al Jazeera to bid. “The Qataris believe investing heavily in sports will give them a return on their global image,” says Frank Dunne, the editor of TV Sports Markets.In other words, Al Jazeera English was never able to gain any traction in the U.S., and had limited traction in other English-language countries. Sports, on the other hand, are universal, and could be the key to unlocking that distribution. Elsewhere, The Guardian notes that leaders at the network ordered staffers to change a story about the U.N. General Assembly, in order to make it lead with comments from the Emir of Qatar: Journalists had produced a package of the UN debate, topped with excerpts of President Obama’s speech, last Tuesday when a last-minute instruction came from Salah Negm, the Qatar-based news director, who ordered the video to be re-edited to lead with the comments from Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
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By Alex Weprin
October 1, 2012 10:29 AM |
The text being discussed is available at http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/al-jazeera-slashes-news-staff-across-the-globe-as-focus-shifts-to-sports_b148053 |
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