Here’s the Email That Al Jazeera ASKED Their Employees to Leak

posted on: Jan 30, 2015

Nevertheless, here’s Negm’s Thursday email, in full:

From: Salah Negm
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:43 PM
To: All Staff
Subject: To BE LEAKED

Dear all,

Another day and another leak from within, showing our vibrant editorial discussions inside the Al Jazeera newsroom. This latest leak follows a previous leaked email discussion about Charlie Hebdo and how our diverse newsroom of 50 nationalities were discussing how best to take the story forward.

I would like to state that our style guide and our editorial discussion is no secret, so these so-called “leaks” don’t, in my opinion, prove anything sinister within the newsrooms of Al Jazeera Media Network. We thrive in broadcasting to the world in its diversity.

Our editorial discussions are proof that we aspire to be as objective as possible in our coverage, language and tone.

I, as Director of News, advocate that we never leave a point of view out, while we also reach any editorial decisions which are editorially correct and not necessarily politically correct.

I, of course, believe that to be really objective we will not satisfy all, especially people who are parties in a conflict or hold diehard, ideologically driven views who are also our audiences, but a small part of the 220 million households we reach around the world.

Others may interpret these leaks as an attempt from one of the above mentioned to spread the false notion that we as Al Jazeera are creating fear or self-censorship amongst our journalists and journalism or try by these leaks to intimidate and create the self-censorship or fear among them.

Source: www.theblaze.com