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.