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A fairly significant part of the Arab world would likely have a problem with Al Jazeera (funded by the Qatar state) being named as their sole newspaper of recor
by jhugo 5y ago
A fairly significant part of the Arab world would likely have a problem with Al Jazeera (funded by the Qatar state) being named as their sole newspaper of record.
- Gadiguibou 5y agoThat's completely fair. I don't live there so am not aware of the best newspapers, but Al Jazeera is internationally renowned for the quality of its journalism.
- whimsicalism 5y agoAl Jazeera Arabic is known to be much more biased/Qatar aligned than Al Jazeera English. The same seems to be true for SCMP - I read SCMP in Beijing and was shocked by how different it was.
- xeromal 5y agoWhat would the Arab world recommend instead?
- jhugo 5y agoI guess my point was that "the Arab world" is diverse enough politically (and geographically) to not be able to be covered by a single newspaper. AJ gives you Qatar's perspective, but Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt have had strong differences with Qatar recently so coverage of some issues will be very different between AJ and those countries' news media. And even aside from bias, AJ is naturally going to be stronger on Gulf issues than it is on North Africa.
- Gadiguibou 5y agoYou're completely right. That was reductive of me. I'd probably edit my comment, but I don't think I can now. Thanks for the feedback.
- the_af 5y agoWhich is an alternative international newspaper of record for the Arab world?