{"id":298,"date":"2003-06-02T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2003-06-02T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/06\/aljazeera_exlus\/"},"modified":"2003-06-02T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2003-06-02T12:03:10","slug":"aljazeera_exlus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/aljazeera_exlus\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Jazeera Exlusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night BBC2 showed this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/correspondent\/2986673.stm\">documentary<\/a> in the Correspondent series, going behind the scenes at Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news TV station, during the Gulf War.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;d been a lot of controversy over this screening seeing as it featured footage (albeit pixilated) of dead British and American soldiers that Al-Jazeera had screened. The Sun lead &#8211; and indeed is still leading &#8211; the outcry, publishing phone and fax details in today&#8217;s edition to persuade readers to bombard the BBC. To what end I don&#8217;t know.<br \/>\nIt must be said, that the footage aired was no less strong than that which we saw of dead Iraqis. You do get the feeling that it&#8217;s as much about the fact that troops were dying, as it is the fact that they were identifiable on camera.<br \/>\nBut then the Americans did manage to once again bomb Al-Jazeera&#8217;s offices in Bagdhad, as they did in Kabul, killing a correspondent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night BBC2 showed this documentary in the Correspondent series, going behind the scenes at Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news TV station, during the Gulf War. There&#8217;d been a lot of controversy over this screening seeing as it featured footage (albeit pixilated) of dead British and American soldiers that Al-Jazeera had screened. The Sun lead &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}