Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Aljazeera:

I used to wake up and turn on Aljazeera to watch the news.  It was an excellent source of daily news.  Not anymore.  I now wake up and face crude and blatant propaganda.  Aljazeera and Al-Arabiyyah (bitter rivals in the past) are now so similar, and this critic in As-Safir found great similarity between the two in how they (un)covered Israeli crimes at the border with Syria.   Saudi media used to criticize Aljazeera on a daily basis and now they defend it against critics. That should tell you where it is going.  FLC here casts doubt on the story peddled in Aljazeera about a Syrian deserter.