Instead of an edit, I decided to add another comment as PS:
If you’re worried about Aljazeera because they are based in Qatar, don’t worry, because everyone is. Including myself. And they know it very well. And I think most of us are aware that they’re running prestige journalism as a face saving front. Like many other things they’ve run over the last decade for tourism sake and to attract foreign investment and appeal to international markets.
As to their national version of the outlet, I vouch for nothing and I have no idea of how it is. I will leave that to their nationals or people who speak Arabic to state and talk about it. I’m completely ignorant of that end and very aware of it.
Like I said in my original comment, trust no outlet. But facts are verifiable.
The reason I see more and more people checking Aljazeera over the years is because they function a bit as a broker between the complexity of the reality of the middle-eastern countries and Arab African countries and our over-simplistic and often latent prejudicial takes of their cultures. I have to say before starting checking Aljazeera, my perspective of Iran was an embarrassment compared to today. It’s about the fact of how they function as a window to understand the inner complexities of their countries and problematic traditions as much as we do with our western ones.
There’s no simple answers. But you mentioned Gaza, they and the respectable outlets have managed to display the problems of Israel without reducing the country to a thumbnail of Zionism and Netanyahu. Without shying away from Genocide and murdered journalists, how many outlets have you seen displaying Israeli protests and dissent? Not a lot of them…
And they get accused of being Arabs running a mission to destabilise Israel in favour of Hamas and Palestine.
I have to say, not that long ago, everytime I defended Palestine, I was accused of being a Hamas supporter. This is the reductionism of myopic coverage. And it’s sad that now I have to run defense to the Israeli sometimes (amidst this terror!! ) because all that people see is the horrific genocide that their government is inflicting on Palestinians.
But if we know how not to reduce the U.S. and Americans to just Maga, why do we keep reducing every other country to their worst faction and erase their entire cultural complexity?
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Instead of an edit, I decided to add another comment as PS:
If you’re worried about Aljazeera because they are based in Qatar, don’t worry, because everyone is. Including myself. And they know it very well. And I think most of us are aware that they’re running prestige journalism as a face saving front. Like many other things they’ve run over the last decade for tourism sake and to attract foreign investment and appeal to international markets.
As to their national version of the outlet, I vouch for nothing and I have no idea of how it is. I will leave that to their nationals or people who speak Arabic to state and talk about it. I’m completely ignorant of that end and very aware of it.
Like I said in my original comment, trust no outlet. But facts are verifiable.
The reason I see more and more people checking Aljazeera over the years is because they function a bit as a broker between the complexity of the reality of the middle-eastern countries and Arab African countries and our over-simplistic and often latent prejudicial takes of their cultures. I have to say before starting checking Aljazeera, my perspective of Iran was an embarrassment compared to today. It’s about the fact of how they function as a window to understand the inner complexities of their countries and problematic traditions as much as we do with our western ones.
There’s no simple answers. But you mentioned Gaza, they and the respectable outlets have managed to display the problems of Israel without reducing the country to a thumbnail of Zionism and Netanyahu. Without shying away from Genocide and murdered journalists, how many outlets have you seen displaying Israeli protests and dissent? Not a lot of them…
And they get accused of being Arabs running a mission to destabilise Israel in favour of Hamas and Palestine.
I have to say, not that long ago, everytime I defended Palestine, I was accused of being a Hamas supporter. This is the reductionism of myopic coverage. And it’s sad that now I have to run defense to the Israeli sometimes (amidst this terror!! ) because all that people see is the horrific genocide that their government is inflicting on Palestinians.
But if we know how not to reduce the U.S. and Americans to just Maga, why do we keep reducing every other country to their worst faction and erase their entire cultural complexity?