Report: Al-Jazeera Top Officials Resign for fabricating news on Syria : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: "After eight years as Al Jazeera’s top news director, Wadah Khanfar resigned on Tuesday. Though the network released a statement saying the departure had been planned since July, observers have been quick to suggest that Khanfar was forced out after a WikiLeaks cable release revealed that he allowed U.S. officials to influence the station’s coverage of the war in Iraq (and other things, presumably). In contrast to the network’s public image as a harsh critic of U.S. actions abroad, the 2005 report portrays Khanfar as “eager” to show the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency that Al Jazeera’s work is “fair”:"
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