The New York Stock Exchange has decided to withdraw the accreditation of two journalists from al-Jazeera, a popular Arabic-language TV network, according to a report on the Web site of the Guardian.
According to the report, the channel, in its broadcast on Tuesday, said: “Al-Jazeera has received an official letter from the New York Stock Exchange informing it that the station’s financial reporters can no longer present their reports from the exchange.”
The NYSE has banned reporters Ammar al-Sankari and Ramzi Shiber “because of al-Jazeera’s coverage of the war on Iraq”, the channel was quoted as saying.
NYSE spokesperson Ray Pellechia denied the charge. He said the exchange had chosen to limit the number of broadcasters working at the exchange since the war began and concentrate “our efforts on those… providing responsible business coverage”.
Al-Jazeera has extensively covered the widespread Arab criticism of the war on Iraq.
A couple of days ago it showed Iraqi TV images of American prisoners of war – a decision that has come in for criticism in the US.
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NYSE spokesperson Ray Pellechia denied the charge.
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perhaps you forgot to read the following :-
Exchange spokesman Ray Pellechia denied the station's war coverage was the cause. Citing *"security reasons,"** he said the exchange had chosen to limit the number of broadcasters working at the lower Manhattan exchange since the war began, giving access only to networks that focus "on responsible business coverage."*
This whole 'Secutiry reasons' is a bs and the fact is that AJ is showing the IRAQI side of the story which is too much for the US to Handle.
How many, if any, other news outlets or journalists were barred from reporting from NYSE, due to these security concerns? I mean, it can't be just these two men who are causing a huge security concern or shortage of space in NYSE.
I agree that it was an apalling thing to ban AlJezzera. Absolutely.
But at the same time I wonder if along with publishing dead Iraqi civilians, captured and dead Brittish and Americans, if the also publish battle scenes of dead Iraqi soldiers?
Forgive me for asking. I don’t know as I can’t acess the website and don’t have the channel. I am also curious as to what the ticker at the bottom of the T.V. says?
Perhaps they are just as responsible as American T.V. Headline news.
But what law says Freedom of Expression or Speech ever had to be responsible? Or Objective?
