Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Aljazeera responds

Aljazeera is feeling the heat.  Here, it responds to the critics and singles out Al-Akhbar.  It resorts to sectarian language that one is familiar with given the Salafis and Islamists who are influential at the station.  It talks about ignoring Bahrain by saying that Bahrain has "a peculiarity".  I bet Bahrain does that have that peculiarity for you.  And of course it takes the easy demagogic stance by saying that its critics are Bashshar supporters who favor Dunya TV.  Oh, no, Mr./Ms. Aljazeera: we detest your coverage and the coverage of Dunya TV.  Neither Aljazeera, nor Dunya.  Both vomit repugnant propaganda, and not only regarding the Syrian issue.  The writer of this article on Aljazeera net argues that Aljazeera has not changed. Has not changed? You think we forgot long-standing Qatari feud with House of Saud which was suddenly put under the carpet? Has not changed?  Who are you kidding? (thanks Dirar)