“Many are arguing that Al Jazeera is an independent, journalistic entity that is not in the business of producing opinion-led or biased content. I would question that premise. Today, Al Jazeera, with its various global operations, is designed to cater to a range of different audiences. It is such a large operation that it has begun to segment its audiences and market shares. Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English have their own distinct audiences, discourses, editorial policies, and red lines. Al Jazeera Arabic has long catered to right-wing communities in the Middle East, crafting specific messaging to a conservative market share. Meanwhile, Al Jazeera English speaks to a more diverse, cosmopolitan, and progressive audience. Even so, I would say that Al Jazeeraas a whole has begun to venture right. This is an important factor that anglophone readers and viewers—and even Al Jazeera English’s staff to a certain extent—do not realize.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
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