Talk:Al Akhbar (Lebanon)

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message: Many statements are made about supposed affiliation of the newspaper that are not sourced: "carries a sectarian agenda".."one dimensional"..."bloody Assad regime"..."prosecuted" etc. etc. 
Either provide neutral sources or let's rewrite this page to become more balanced. Riemerb (talk) 09:43, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality of text / lack of references 

message: The introduction and the first section (by far the largest in the article) currently appear in arabic; can either an arabic speaker please translate this into english, or should the section be deleted?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Okapi296 (talk • contribs) 01:27, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic Passages  

message: The newspaper has been widely seen as very partisan in the Syria crisis and as supportive of the Asad regime.  This has led many to leave the paper, including the famous American Jewish journalist Maximilian Blumenthal.  This should be in article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.162.6.172 (talk) 18:39, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It has many articles that are critical of Syria. It's just more balanced than Western and Gulf media. FunkMonk (talk) 05:33, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pro-Assad orientation 

message: After al-Akhbar wrote an article claiming Hilal Khashan is a well-paid Stratfor informer, and after I added it to his article, an army of IPs and new users have suddenly spawned to edit war on this page, as well as adding puffery to the Hilal Khashan page. Both pages are very obscure, so I don't doubt for a second that Khashan himself or his acolytes has something to do with it. So watch out, these are involved editors. FunkMonk (talk) 10:48, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stratfor and Hilal Khashan 

message: Max Blumenthal's acrimonious departure from the paper is obviously notable. But is it really necessary or due to include a two-paragraph soliloquy from him attacking his former employer? Seems like that could be rather painlessly summarized. -Kudzu1 (talk) 15:29, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Only notable for the English edition. FunkMonk (talk) 15:41, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

text: Well the first paragraph is trying to collect the positive points. The second one may be condensable, but I'm reluctant to lose clarity about what exactly Blumenthal thinks Al Akhbar has being doing that's objectionable. It's so common to end up with worse-than-useless "X accused Y of supporting Z" which looks like it's telling you something but actually isn't. Podiaebba (talk) 15:44, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: We even have an example of that in the article: Times journalist Mark Ashurst described the newspaper as having "close links to the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria". What the heck does that actually mean? Podiaebba (talk) 15:47, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blumenthal 

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message: It's overly simplistic to classify this paper as pro-Syrian government when many of the paper's writers are highly critical of the Syrian regime. The paper does have a political alignment that is associated with the pro-Syria March 8th alliance. Also despite the accusations from random New York Times journalists, the paper does not have ties to the Assads and was banned in Syria at the beginning of the Syrian crisis. 20marcor (talk) 02:36, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pro-Syrian Government orientation??