Al Jazeera is to journalism what the WWE is to sports: If you squint really hard, it kinda-sorta looks like journalism, but the choreography unmasks the façade. Despite the veneer of authenticity, you can’t help but notice that the outcome is (blatantly) predetermined.
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(Plus, the WWE’s storylines tend to be more plausible.)
But Al Jazeera was never designed to be a fair and impartial media outlet. That’s not why Qatar funded it and launched it. (Its current CEO is literally a member of the Qatari royal family.)
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Instead, it’s better to view Al Jazeera as the unofficial PR arm of Sunni royalty. The job of this “news” organization is to publish and publicize content that influences public opinion — domestically and abroad —
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