Rethink

I’ve defended what is often al Jazeera’s great coverage of a number of international stories – at least in English. But stuff like this and some other recent decisions makes me wonder. The network quietly pulled a story suggesting that the beheadings of US reporters Foley and Sotloff had actually been faked, perhaps by Foley himself to create a pretext for Western intervention. Even retraction emphasized that the step was taken out of “respect to families of the victims.”