Dear All,
We would like to announce our resignation from Fox News in Amman. Although we never actually worked for your organization, we helped for the past three years in facilitating your work in the Middle East. We base our decision on moral issues. We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that. Not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House, and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism. You have crossed all borders and red lines.
An Arab mother cries over the death of her child very much like an American and Israeli mother. Arab blood is not cheap, and we are not barbarians. You ought to be more responsible and have more decency when you take one side against the other. You have a role to play and a responsibility to shoulder for the sake of your very naive viewers. Throughout the three years we worked with you, and helped you, we thought you would develop a degree of respect [for] people in this part of the world. But the disdain and blatant one-sided coverage of all Mideast conflicts only highlights your total lack of humanity and bias toward Israel.
Your lack of professionalism has made you a [source] of ridicule throughout the world. Your inexperienced anchors with their racist comments are not only a shameful scar on the American Media, they simply represent state run Television networks in countries you despise in the Middle East. Finally, our decision again is based on moral and professional basis and from now on we will no longer help in any Fox related matters.
Serene Sabbagh
Jomana Karadsheh
Via: [Angry Arab]
Wow! These two journalists are making a very forceful statement. I doubt this will have any actual impact on Fox’s coverage but one can hope.
UPDATE: The media professional web resource Media Bistro has picked up the story, reporting that:
"Sabbagh appeared on FNC, including The O’Reilly Factor, last November after the Jordanian hotel blasts. This April blog entry on FOXNews.com identifies Karadsheh as a "Jordanian producer for Fox." Update: 6:56pm: "Karadsheh has been Fox’s producer inside the Saddam trial," a tipster adds. Karadsheh has also worked for CNN, as recently as last week in Baghdad."
Click here for more.
Cash loan.
Cash loan.
If Arab blood is not cheap, how can you support Hezbollah and Iran? How can you support the government of Lebanon that refused to return two soldiers and apologise for killing another 8, and prefered to plunge their country into the war?
If Arab blood is not cheap, why are you keeping it a secret from Hamas, PLO, your Governments? Why do Arabs keep voting for organisations that place destruction of Israel ahead of welfare of Arab children? The slogan of any of those parties is “we will eliminate every man, woman and child in Israel, and will blame them for any discomfort they will cause to our people in the process”, and they get the votes.
I am really happy to find 3 Arab bloggers who accept the responsibility for the welfare of their people. You are not in that list.
BTW, have all these “dissidents” landed better jobs with al-J prior to posting their letter? Please have a decency to track their next jobs and post them.
Harming Syria, Dream on
“Funny. I feel the same way about Hamas, al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah that you do about CNN and Fox.”
Amen to that, because if these organizations ever go away it means that Israel and the US have stopped creating such organizations and they have stopped their injustice against the Palestinians and the Lebanese.
Glad to see that you agree tommy boy
I think if fox and cnn go away, we’ll be much better off and we’ll have less people dying in the world.
Funny. I feel the same way about Hamas, al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah that you do about CNN and Fox.
“We need credentialed journalists reporting on these sorts of events. We cannot leave it to the local “Death to Israel” hacks to give us unbiased coverage.”
Why don’t you keep contradicting yourself, the “right-wing” blogsphere, is this a joke. I think if fox and cnn go away, we’ll be much better off and we’ll have less people dying in the world. Rignt now American public opinion is being misguided because of evil people like you tommy boy.
Getting rid of some of these local “reporters” in the Arab world would probably do the credibility of the western mass media some good. Getting rid of the shameless leftists who run these outfits would be an even bigger boon.
The total dishonesty of Arab reporters, and the complete incompetency of the media sources that hire them, has been on display today in the right-wing blogosphere, where obviously photoshopped pictures of Lebanon are being passed off as the real McCoy:
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/08/05/the-worst-photoshop-ive-ever-seen/
Ace of Spades makes a good point:
“Reuters has some explaining to do. The whole MSM has some explaining to do. But they will do no explaining, and ask no questions, and embargo the story, because they cannot admit that they have cut foreign budgets to such a degree tthey now rely almost entirely on local stringers of questionable objectivity and integrity for the bulk of their foreign reportage.
They just can’t even get into this issue. They’d more or less have to simply say “Almost all of our international coverage is highly suspect due to our unwillingness to send credentialed journalists into these areas.”
We need credentialed journalists reporting on these sorts of events. We cannot leave it to the local “Death to Israel” hacks to give us unbiased coverage.