BBC2 - Correspondent: Aljazeera Exclusive

"Sunday’s Correspondent special - Al Jazeera: Exclusive! - was a straight-forward retelling of the story of the war to topple Saddam Hussein, through the eyes of the world’s only independant worldwide Arab news channel. But it revealed as much about Western media bias as it did about Al Jazeera. Based in Doha, Qatar, and under the control of wily news editor Ibrahim Hilal, Al Jazeera scored exclusives which were so highly in demand that Hilal was forced to personally remonstrate with Sky News when they transmitted Al Jazeera footage without permission. The channel was shown to be efficient, speedy, and resourceful - although not always accurate, as the incident with the search for the ‘downed pilot’ in Baghdad showed.
And of course, Al Jazeera isn’t without bias. Some of its journalists were themselves Iraqi, and had relatives in Baghdad. One journalist, whipping himself up into a lather of bravado for an assignment to Baghdad (which he later decided was too risky), declared that he’d drop his microphone to fight American soldiers as they invaded his country. So much for Geraldo’s pistol.
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But Correspondent also exposed the appalling hypocrisy displayed by the Western media during the war. With the benefit of a few months’ hindsight, and clips from Al Jazeera that most of us didn’t see when the bombs were falling - the full extent of the Western double standard was revealed.[...]"
(TVToday.co.uk)