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VOLUME 11, nos. 50/51 (Winter/Spring 2005)
Essay
AL JAZEERA MOTTO:
‘Opinion/Counter Opinion’ or ‘Spin/More Spin’
Sensationalized Spin, Radical Rhetoric Pass for News and Debate
BY MOHAMMAD ALI ATASSI
With its immense
financial backing, relative political freedom and vast geographic reach, the
tremendously successful Al Jazeera should present a new Arab
sensibility and serve as a forum for openness and enlightened debate. Instead,
in this essay, the author laments a channel distressingly similar to CNN in its
war coverage, afraid to upset conservative religious authorities, and pandering
to the lowest common denominator in its quest for the sensational. The result is
that a potentially powerful revolutionary tool is really nothing more than the
pursuit of viewership and ideological propaganda.
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