{"id":2092,"date":"2004-12-04T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2004-12-04T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-04T22:29:00","slug":"nobodys-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/12\/04\/18\/29\/nobodys-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody&#8217;s Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,117560,00.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s ubiquitous presence at news events in Iraq has some wondering whether the Arabic satellite news network is a willing or even enthusiastic partner in the anti-American campaign being waged by Iraqi insurgents &#8230; the U.S.-led coalition says it has documented 34 instances last week alone of Al Jazeera hyping, misreporting or distorting events in Iraq. Media experts say the coalition&#8217;s criticism is valid and critics say the network may be fanning the flames of hatred against the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/Description.asp?Da=12\/2\/2004&#038;Cat=14&#038;Num=002\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Al-Jazeera networks recent insult of the Iranian nation was totally unacceptable &#8230;  rumors [suggest]  that the network was established by U.S. and Israeli agents in order to present a bad image of Islam to the world &#8230; the actions of the network gradually revealed the fact that Al-Jazeera officials, on the orders of Zionist agents, are trying to divide Islamic countries and tarnish the image of Islam &#8230; [Zionists] founded the Al-Jazeera network to tarnish the image of true Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Poor little <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/HomePage\">Al-Jazeera<\/a>. Hated by both the Western neocon mullahs <i>and<\/i> the Middle Eastern Islamist mullahs, could it be that this scrappy little channel is performing the classic function of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fourth_Estate\">Fourth Estate<\/a>: questioning the actions of the Powers That Be and re-presenting political theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s ubiquitous presence at news events in Iraq has some wondering whether the Arabic satellite news network is a willing or even enthusiastic partner in the anti-American campaign being waged by Iraqi insurgents&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}