Al Jazeera Investigates
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| Created by | Al Jazeera Media Network |
| Country of origin | Various |
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| Running time | 50 minutes |
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Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera America (2013-2016) |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | November 2006 – present |
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Al Jazeera Investigates is a one-hour current affairs and investigative journalism program that is aired on Al Jazeera English and while in operation Al Jazeera America that focuses on a specific topic per episode through in-depth documentaries.
Team and role
Formed in 2010, in its own words: the role of Al Jazeera Investigations is not to report the news, but to make the news.
The Unit, also known as 'the Investigations Team' or, simply, 'Al Jazeera Investigations' is based at the Network headquarters in Doha, but also has representation in London, Washington, DC and San Francisco. The unit is a Al Jazeera Media Network asset and its reports will appear equally on the other channels, tailored appropriately for the relevant language and audience.
The Unit's investigations resulted, amongst others, in the documentary What Killed Arafat? This film won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. In 2013, the Arafat findings were indeed reported as a news-item on other networks. It will reveal secrets and expose truths surrounded by silence.
The current Manager of Investigative Journalism for the Al Jazeera Media Network is Clayton Swisher. Other leading figures include: Josh Bernstein, Phil Rees, Ken Silverstein. At its launch, the unit had three separate teams.
The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers
On December 27, 2015, Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera America released a report conducted by the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit called "The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers" which investigated professional athletes' potential use of Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) naming Peyton Manning and other prominent athletes like Ryan Howard, Ryan Zimmerman, James Harrison, and Clay Matthews III, as having received drugs from Charles Sly, a pharmacist who had worked at the Guyer Anti-Aging Clinic in Indianapolis during the fall of 2011. The report involved Liam Collins, a British hurdler, going undercover in an attempt to obtain banned substances from Sly and other medical professionals. The report claimed that Manning's wife, Ashley, had been shipped off-label human growth hormone (HGH) by the Guyer Institute during the fall of 2011 while Manning was out with a severe neck injury, with the intention of hiding that Manning was the one actually receiving the drugs.[1][2][3] Sly said on a hidden camera record:
I did part of my training at the Guyer Institute, which is this anti-aging clinic in Indiana. Him and his wife would come in after hours and get IVs and shit. So one thing that Guyer does is he dispenses drugs out of his office, which physicians can do in the United States. It’s just not very many of them do it. And all the time we would be sending Ashley Manning drugs. Like growth hormone, all the time, everywhere, Florida. And it would never be under Peyton’s name. it would always be under her name. We were sending it everywhere... it’d go to Florida... Almost all drugs you can prescribe off-label. GH is one of the few drugs, it’s really the only drug you cannot prescribe off-label. It has three indications.I know for a fact he does. I would see patients with him part of the day and the other part of the day I would work in his pseudo-pharmacy. I’m surprised his place has not been shut down yet.[4]
MLB player Taylor Teagarden also claimed in a undercover footage included in the documentary:
I used it last year, I was very ... I was scared to be honest with you. I took it for like two weeks and I had a test four weeks after my last administration of it. Nothing happened ... And I was also taking peptides too but they were all urine tests, no blood tests ... Once a year, maybe twice at most.[5]
It's worth to note HGH was outlawed by the NFL in 1991. As part of the collective bargaining agreement in 2011, an HGH testing regime was agreed to, but testing itself for HGH didn't begin until 2014.[6][1][7][8][9] It is illegal under United States federal law to prescribe HGH off label.[10]
References
- 1 2 "The dark side: The secret world of sports doping". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- ↑ "Documentary links Peyton Manning, other pro athletes to use of PEDs". Espn.go.com. 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- ↑ "Al Jazeera reporter stresses that no allegation is being made against Peyton Manning | ProFootballTalk". Profootballtalk.nbcsports.com. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peyton-manning-human-growth-hormone_us_567f16e4e4b0b958f6599440?
- ↑ http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25538782
- ↑ http://heavy.com/sports/2015/12/charles-charlie-sly-pharmacist-gave-peyton-manning-hgh-human-growth-hormone-texas-indiana-youtube-photos-al-jazeera-documentary-howard-zimmerman-james-harrison/
- ↑ Archived June 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "The CBA in a nutshell | ProFootballTalk". Profootballtalk.nbcsports.com. 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- ↑ "NFL players ratify collective bargaining agreement, which includes HGH testing, sources say". Espn.go.com. 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- ↑ http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/515665
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