View Full Version : Al-Jazeera Seeks TV Producer in NYC - On Monster.Com
BionicEye
10-26-2005, 08:17 AM
WTF?
http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=35781087&WT.mc_n=MKT000125
News Television Producer
Location: New York City, NY 10017
Salary/Wage: Negotiable
Status: Full Time, Employee
Job Category: Arts, Entertainment, and Media
Work Experience: 2+ to 5 Years
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
Job Description
Al-Jazeera Television is looking for a Producer to work in its New York Office. A successful candidate must have a good command of spoken and written Arabic as well as English. US citizenship or residency is an asset. Education to university level is required along with a background in broadcast journalism. Televison experience is a plus.
Contact Information
Email: foukara@aljazeera.net
ms.peachy
10-26-2005, 08:58 AM
I'm not sure why you find this so baffling.
I bet it doesn't get as many responses as this one (http://nerve.fugacious.net/drf/archives/000945.html)!
BionicEye
10-26-2005, 09:59 AM
I'm not sure why you find this so baffling.
oh i dunno... headlines like:
"Top Al Jazeera reporter Tayssir Alouni jailed for 'collaborating with a terrorist organisation' and acting as ' financial courier for Bin Laden'"
and
"US: Al Jazeera was engaging in propaganda on behalf of terrorists"
ms.peachy
10-26-2005, 10:15 AM
Al Jazeera is a broadcasting corporation like any other. They have a vested interested in having a US media presence.
Qdrop
10-26-2005, 11:28 AM
while biased, they are not the evil muslim/terrorist network that Fox news makes them out to be...
Control Room (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002X8U4I/002-0641256-8265656?v=glance&n=130&%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance)
BionicEye
10-26-2005, 11:30 AM
serioulsy....contribute something or fuckin leave.
you are such a fucking spamming troll on this board.
ms.peachy
10-26-2005, 12:28 PM
serioulsy....contribute something or fuckin leave.
you are such a fucking spamming troll on this board.
Is that being said in jest?
Because Q's comment is quite legitimate.
I really don't know how much the average American knows about Al Jazeera, since I don't live there currently and I've no idea how they are described in the US media. Not very kindly, I imagine. But the fact is that they are a legitimate news organisation.
BionicEye
10-26-2005, 01:10 PM
Is that being said in jest?
Because Q's comment is quite legitimate.
I really don't know how much the average American knows about Al Jazeera, since I don't live there currently and I've no idea how they are described in the US media. Not very kindly, I imagine. But the fact is that they are a legitimate news organisation.
At least half of what i say is in jest. he does make a good point that's similar to your point of view. i see that they are considered 'legit', but i subscribe to the thought that they do more harm than good in harboring such close relationships with 'terrorists". i could be wrong. am i?
ms.peachy
10-26-2005, 02:05 PM
It depends on what you mean by 'harm'. From one perspective, the sort-of official US position, that fact that they give voice to terrorist organisations makes them less 'likeable', because the tradition line that the US media has taken is to not do so, the idea being that if you recognise such entities it validates their position to an extent. That is certainly one valid way of looking at things. However, Al Jazeera does not share this philosophy - and in the end, that is all it is, a philosophy, a point of view.
Frankly I can only see benefit really to the East and West having more exposure to eachother's media.
BionicEye
10-26-2005, 02:48 PM
like you i do believe that exposure to all points of view is important, no, VITAL. I would read/listen/watch their news just to see what 'they're' thinking. and as an aside, i do think that our media is incredibly isolated, which is why I try to watch BBC, Hispanic and French news whenever I get the chance. At the same time I have a hard time saying I can consider Al Jazeera a legitamate news source when its apparent that there is an affinity there for groups that are out to destroy us. To tell you the truth I haven't watched much from that source, so maybe i'm completely missing the point. i'd really like to think that i'm wrong,
ms.peachy
10-26-2005, 03:00 PM
Well in a sense they do have an 'affinity,' although generally people I think associate that word with a fondness or affectionate feeling, and I don't think that that's neccessarily the case. It can also mean 'kinship', and I think that that's more apt - which is why Al Jazeera maybe feels that although these groups may not have the right to blow peole up, they do have a right to air their grievances.
I don't pretend to be an expert about what A-J is all about, and I'm not saying 'hey they are just great and everything they do is wonderful', only that a) their point of view is as valid as any other, even if we don't happen to like it and b) it's not surprising to me in the least that they would have a US presence.
BionicEye
10-26-2005, 03:16 PM
on your points 'a' and 'b', you're absolutely right.
my thing was that i was sort of baffled to see a job offered by Al Jazeera posted on Monster.com.
Wrong or right, to see that in my email mailbox struck me as though I had seen an ad for a job working for the klu klux klan or something.
i do feel that they should have a right to 'air their grievences', but does the outlet attach any commentary to it? if so, do they allow for those opinions to be expressed as taken or do they make it clear what they are for/against?
i know that this is a touchy subject in media - journalism is supposed to just report. but in the case of reporting the statements of someone like bin landen, should they not have some sort of disclaimer or statement saying that they do not condone what they are reporting? if not, i feel that there is a real danger spreading messages of hate and chaos to every corner of the world, potentially spreading this hate to impressionable groups of people with a TV but no real ability to discern right from wrong.
Ace42X
10-26-2005, 03:33 PM
Why all this procastrination? Surely you can browse the Al-Jazeera website and make your own mind up?
BionicEye
10-26-2005, 03:41 PM
i'm sure their 'about us' section won't answer my questions.
Ace42X
10-26-2005, 03:43 PM
i'm sure their 'about us' section won't answer my questions.
Do you not trust your own judgement enough to weigh up the validity of their reporting? 'Cause I can tell you Fox stinks to high heaven without having to have a seminar or read their corporate statement.
Funkaloyd
10-26-2005, 07:27 PM
in the case of reporting the statements of someone like bin landen, should they not have some sort of disclaimer or statement saying that they do not condone what they are reporting?
Should CNN do that when, for example, running a story on the latest State of the Union speech?
Should CNN do that when, for example, running a story on the latest State of the Union speech?Of course not!
CNN are champions of truth and justice, reporting all that's fit for public consumption...
Them and FOX.
</saaaaaaarchasm>
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