Kamis, 10 Februari 2011

Al Jazeera and its "Framing War"

The article in Al Jazeera English website on 2nd February 2011 titled: “US Viewers Seek Al Jazeera Coverage” is a persuasion to the US audience that Al Jazeera is an alternative source of information covering news related to the Middle East region. It is not only promoting Al Jazeera’s advanced achievement of journalism, but also try to convince the western’s (especially the US) public and authority related to importance to give Al Jazeera access to reach its viewer enthusiasm.


It is obviously not easy to cover the objective facts in undemocratic region (refers to despotic and dictatorship regimes) with many conflicts because of oil and disputed land such as in the Middle East. There are appearing so many old fashion of censorship such as by cutting the access of information, closing news broadcaster office, confiscating the broadcasting equipment or journalist detention. Furthermore, the countries like Iraq, Bahrain, Algeria and Morocco prevent completely the access of Al Jazeera’s journalist into their territory.