Mohamed Fahmy is shocked: he had no idea. He feels duped

Mohamed Fahmy, the former bureau chief of Aljazeera English in Cairo. Here, he is expressing his shock.  You see Fahmy, had no idea that the Qatari regime exercises such control over...Qatari media. You see, Fahmy, all along assumed that Qatar is a flourishing democracy and that Qatari media are allowed full independence and freedom.  Fahmy is heartbroken because he discovered otherwise.  When Fahmy served as bureau chief for Aljazeera, he thought that Qatari media are independent of the Qatari regime.  And notice that he here faults Aljazeera for violating repression rules of Sisi.  I am the last one to defend Aljazeera these days but come on. What is that scene in Casablanca about gambling?