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February 18, 2013

Collapse of Al Jazeera's Credibility

Ghaffar Hussain, The Commentator

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The fact that the channel is owned and tightly controlled by the undemocratic and authoritarian Qatari royal family, that jails independent journalists who criticise the regime at home, seems to have gone unnoticed and ignored by many. But since the start of the Arab Spring, that is slowly starting to change.

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TAGGED: Arab Spring, Qatar, Middle East, Al Jazeera

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