Algerian citizens blame ill- intentioned world media for their malicious coverage of the march in Algiers
The Algerian citizens have raised several questions over the real drives behind the recent media uproar triggered by the international satellite channels like Al- Jazeera, France 24, TF1 and many others that grew like bounty hunters chasing news overseas faraway from their own premises.
- The Algerian viewers were stunned the day before yesterday by the large coverage of the unauthorized march that took place in the capital city, Algiers, although various cities around the country have witnessed protests that outnumbered the one that took place in Algiers but gone unnoticed.
- For instance, Al Jazeera’s reporters have embarked in a bombastic coverage of the event overshadowing even the organizers of the march. The media hype started with the announcement of the march in a continuous loop all Friday long in a bid to start another Algerian serial whose end is the toppling of the regime.
- Al- Jazeera has implicitly hinted to the absence of a bureau in Algeria, discrediting thus itself since it cannot depict objectively the reality of the Algerian society, which according to the channel’s reporter, is not different from the Tunisian and Egyptian ones.
- Several Algerians have contacted Echourok’s newsroom to react against Al Jazeera’s coverage of the unauthorized march, blaming the Arab satellite network for lacking objectivity and professionalism this time around.
- They all agreed that revolutions spring out from people’s suffering and feed from their hopes and not from the media- oriented facts. They have argued that the Algerians have rebelled against the French colonialism at a time where TV didn’t exist on the media landscape, and rebelled in October 1988 well before the emergence of the satellite channels.