Ali Hashem Al Jazeera Journalist Explains Resignation over Syria and Bahrain Coverage

Al Jazeera Journalist Resigns over Syria and Bahrain Coverage
by grtv

Ali Hashem: Al Jazeera has become a “media war machine” and is “committing journalistic suicide”.

In the middle of February, something called the Syrian Electronic Army—hackers in Syria that support the government—hacked into Al Jazeera’s servers and found some emails. Some of them were written by Ali Hashem, who was a Middle East correspondent for the Arab Al Jazeera channel. In those emails he expressed his concern about the way Al Jazeera was covering the conflict in Syria. It later led to his resignation.

Ali Hashem is a television journalist who recently resigned from his post as a war reporter for Al Jazeera. While working for Al Jazeera, he covered the revolution in Libya, Lebanese politics, and tension related to the Syrian uprising on the Syrian Lebanese borders. He also worked for the BBC and led the production team at Manar TV. …source