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From: Zeyhilel@aol.com
Date: Sun Feb 21 2010 - 14:32:22 EST
Selam Dehaiers,
It was simply appalling. I suspect there was a sabotage by the people that
are
close to President Isayas. In all my years in watching interviews, I have
NEVER,
NEVER ever watched a journalist having so much freedom to ask whatever he
or
she fancies. NEVER ! This was an atrocious mugging. A pure and simple
terrorist
act by Al Jazeera organization. And, the sad aspect of it is that they
pulled it off.
They must have had inside help.
When somebody wishes to interview NOBODY-ME, the first question that
I ask is: "What kind of questions do you want to ask?". If that person
wishes
to leave the agenda open, I tell him or her: "Take a hike !". And I am
NOBODY.
When Larry King of CNN interviewed Ahmadinejad and Ghaddafi last year here
in the USA, you think these two controversial figures would expose
themselves
to ridicule without being ascertained what type of questions would be
asked
and how they would be framed? NEVER !
Zeyhilel
“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's
opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”...
.............. Michel de Montaigne
In a message dated 2/21/2010 8:20:42 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
yacobzech@yahoo.co.uk writes:
The recent interview conducted by Jane Dutton with the President is a
classic example of journalistic ignorance. I presume that Ms Dutton was given
this assignment because she was an African and certainly not because of her
journalistic prowess.
Ms Dutton showed her extreme ignorance of Eritrea in her opening statement
when she claimed that this was a rare interview. Rare for whom? For the
President or for Al Jazeera. Only last year, a number of foreign journalists
conducted interviews with the President, a fact that Ms Dutton either
conveniently forgot in order to sensationalise her report, or rather she was not
aware of the previous interviews.
Ms Dutton was making sensational unfounded allegations, and as a sign of
her ignorance, stating them as truths to be explained by the President. This
sort of thing is more at home in the run down back street tea shops, rather
than on an international forum.
Lets assume for a moment that Ms Dutton had done her research and as she
claims all her statements were unequivocal truths. In one of her wild
allegations she stated that Israel has a military base in Eritrea, presumably in
the Dahalak Islands. Assuming this to be true, how then can she justify her
next statement " Why do you send arms to Hamas" (its not even do you send
arms). So if both these statements are true, we now have a situation
where, despite the military presence of Israel, the Eritrean government manages
to send arms to Israel's enemy, Hamas. Only recently Israel destroyed Gaza
in order to curb Hamas, so why is it allowing arms to flow underneath its
nose to its sworn enemy? Shouldn't the esteemed Dutton have asked this before
she blurted out statements that are to say the least, contradictory if
not down right childish.
When Al Jazeera English first came to air, it tried to portray itself as a
voice for the voiceless, as a different perspective etc. I had my doubts
then because the faces that fronted this new phenomena were quite familiar
old BBC, CNN newscasters.
Sadly, Al Jazeera is beginning to show its true colour and the sheep skin
that it had been wearing is getting a bit threadbare, exposing the true
nature of its editors and presenters.
So much for the free press 'en-lighting' us.