During last week’s 46th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, Qatari-backed news network Al Jazeera was given a platform to further their typical propaganda against Israel. At an award show supposedly meant to highlight journalistic integrity and quality, honoring a network known to report heavily in favor of terrorists and Islamists would seem contrary to the purpose of the event. Instead, Al Jazeera’s blatant bias was unsurprisingly applauded by the liberal media representatives in attendance.
Al Jazeera’s flagship show, Fault Lines, was nominated for five news awards across four categories, making it the most nominated non-American network of the night. Fault Lines won two of those awards, and one of the award show’s presenters also worked for Al Jazeera. These moments on stage provided Al Jazeera’s staff multiple opportunities to push their messaging.
Al Jazeera’s Rhana Natour gave a speech before presenting awards that was anything but subtle. Natour, the director and producer of “All That Remains,” an episode of Fault Lines that very clearly criticized Israel for their operations in Gaza, urged journalists to “question powerful institutions and powerful people who think they answer to no one.”
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