When you say "an affront to our values", which ones do you mean?
To be honest, that sounds completely on-brand for Al Jazeera Arabic.
"We are entrusted & empowered, often, to tell stories we see ignored and marginalized from perspectives that are ignored and marginalized." 🤡
To be honest, that sounds completely on-brand for Al Jazeera Arabic.
"We are entrusted & empowered, often, to tell stories we see ignored and marginalized from perspectives that are ignored and marginalized." 🤡
https://twitter.com/SanaSaeed/status/1365006394055942145
"Qatar is thought to see Al Jazeera as an instrument of influence, increasingly so as its foreign policy has become more active ... but its English networks in particular have generally recruited journalists who see their work in more progressive terms."
theguardian.com/media/2021/feb…
theguardian.com/media/2021/feb…
"The launch of Rightly would have been less surprising to those familiar with Al Jazeera’s Arabic output, which reflected a more conservative ideology, said Dr HA Hellyer, a senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and the Carnegie Endowment."
“Al Jazeera Arabic is a rightwing channel ... The distinction between such channels in the Arab world is more: are they rightwing in favour of non-state, pretty-rightwing, Islamist groups? Or are they rightwing in favour of authoritarian regimes opposed to such groups?”
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