Al Jazeera report is usually politically motivated, biased: Editors’ Guild
The Editors’ Guild of Bangladesh on Sunday termed Al Jazeera’s documentary titled “All of the Prime Minister’s Guys” as an example of “bad journalism”, saying that it violated journalistic ethics in lots of ways and was politically motivated and biased.
“Though the complete documentary was built centering a family group, the title was “All of the Prime Minister’s Men,” said a statement signed by Editors’ Guild President Mozammel Babu here today.
The Editors’ Guild, an association formed to safeguard editorial freedom and promote responsible journalism in the united states, said that the documentary was titled “All of the Prime Minister’s Guys” without the evidence mentioning allegations published earlier by unique media, which is “bad journalism”.
The documentary which is politically motivated and biased can't ever be a good example of investigative journalism, the Editors’ Guild observed.
“The documentary is founded on some informal talks. No suitable facts was presented to prove that,” the statement said.
Millions of Euros, according to the documentary, were committed to Hungary and France, but no source of the fund was proven in that, it all said, adding, “There have been only verbal statements about money transactions to greatly help get government assignments. Al Jazeera cannot show any official statements of the European Union or countries concerned to get those allegations”.
The original backup of email threatening Sami with lifestyle was not proven in the documentary, which made the credibility of reported threat questionable, the Editors’ Guild described.
The Editors’ Guild also questioned the acceptability of the report as it did not have statements from the governments of the countries - Hungary, France and Malaysia - where in fact the people were demonstrated to have travelled with forged records, passports and laundered funds.
The footage demonstrated in the documentary was captured with hidden camera, which should not be achieved by a typical media outlet, the Editors’ Guild said, adding, “The documentary goes against journalistic norms as there have been no statements of the accused shown in it”.
“The Editors’ Guild thinks that Al Jazeera’s comments-they (accused) were contacted but cannot be reached for comments-were unacceptable after their two-year-very long investigation,” it said.
Getting spyware is a federal government policy however the documentary showed no evidence of it being bought from an Israeli organization, the statement said, adding that the documentary cunningly confirmed a blurred image of supposedly Israeli officials, saying they didn't desire to be named.
The statement said, “Among the interviewees in the hour-much time documentary was punished by a Bangladeshi court.”
The Editors’ Guild welcomes any report or programme that's made predicated on evidence. But a motivated article hampers democracy and journalism aswell, the statement added.
