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Uncle Joe

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6. Nothing in that paragraph from Wikipedia in the OP was in disagreement with your initial post, so what is the issue?

Reply to lapucelle (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 13, 2026, 04:33 PM

Friday

We haven't declared an excursion against Qatar have we?

In fact we're spending million dollar missiles to defend them, they have the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East, but their news network is off limits because they favor their own host nation?

Al Gore apparently trusted Al Jazeera enough to sell Current T.V. to them.

How much of our corporate sponsored media here in the U.S. favor corporations over people, does Media bias grade that?

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It's Qatari STATE media. N/T lapucelle Friday #1

That's why I posted this paragraph in the OP from the good folk at Wikipedia Uncle Joe Friday #2

Who exactly are the "folk" at Wikipedia, and what exactly makes them good? lapucelle Friday #5

Nothing in that paragraph from Wikipedia in the OP was in disagreement with your initial post, so what is the issue? Uncle Joe Friday #6

It's still Qatari state media with a checkered record on reporting the facts and "misleading extreme editorial bias. lapucelle Friday #9

All that matters is whether the information is true or not, and Al Jazeera is as good as anyone else Uncle Joe Friday #11

P.S. In case you missed it, Apparently Gideon Levy, a columnist, and member of the Haaretz Editorial Board, said that Uncle Joe Friday #7

It's the best news resource in the area Warpy Friday #8

... lapucelle Friday #10

I put it on my roku machine Rver Friday #3

I try to stay flexible, and pull from as many substantive information sources as possible. Uncle Joe Friday #4