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How would Al Jazeera becoming a popular news source be a good thing, if you now know that the network is a US gov't shill? There's no progress, only perceived
by narkee 15y ago
How would Al Jazeera becoming a popular news source be a good thing, if you now know that the network is a US gov't shill?
There's no progress, only perceived progress, where the US gov't gave you the illusion of choice of news networks.
- sliverstorm 15y agoJust because select bits of information are altered or omitted does not mean they do not carry other valuable information. Al Jazeera had excellent coverage of the recent uprisings, in none of which was the USA involved. Also I would argue this does not make them a shill. A shill has a very close association with the other entity, and the shill's number one purpose is promoting the other entity. It hardly sounds like that is the case here.
- robchez 15y agoWe expect the trend in favor of using Al Jazeera as an informal tool of GOQ foreign policy to continue undiminished.[1] [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/235574 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...