Qatar-Run Outlet Warns Of Zionist-Controlled Media

The dire consequences of a foreign country setting the editorial and content agenda.

Washington, July 17 – A news and commentary network based in a pro-Islamist, pro-Iran, terrorism-supporting Persian Gulf state, that hews to the political agenda of its country’s autocratic government, continued this week to stream and broadcast pieces informing viewers around the world of the dire consequences of a foreign country setting the editorial and content agenda, namely Israel and its supporters.

Al Jazeera’s English-language outlet AJ+, plus several smaller units of the Qatari media empire, described in at least six segments this week a coordinated effort by “Zionist-controlled media companies” to suppress criticism of Israel and paint opponents of Israel as violent and hate-filled. The analyst and correspondents in each of the segments warned their audiences of the dangers of having the agenda of a foreign country determine the content and tone of the news the media carry.

“It cannot be healthy for the US, to give an example, to have all of its major networks and newspapers beholden to Zionist ownership or management,” declared one Al-Jazeera commentator on the Qatari-owned and -managed network. “Imagine the distortion, the subversion of democratic processes, that occurs when the people are misinformed through foreign propaganda that influences the presentation of the news they consume,” continued the analysis on a network that toes the line of its masters in Doha by downplaying Islamic terrorism, whitewashing Iranian hegemonic imperialism, denying Jewish indigeneity and rights in the ancestral Jewish homeland, fomenting violent conflict, and criticizing Western countries for failure to meet progressive ideals even as Qatar itself practices and endorses political repression, modern-day slavery, and censorship.

Al-Jazeera similarly carried breathless reporting on, and analysis of, various accusations against presidential candidate, then President, Donald Trump, that his campaign colluded with, or at least benefited from, social media interference by Russia. Qatar itself, a dictatorship under Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, does not hold elections. The network’s coverage of alleged Russian interference focused in the main on the political implications for Trump, and refrained from criticism of Russia for such interference, and certainly from any implication that Russian interference poses a long-term problem that they must keep bringing up – a marked contrast with the network’s attitude toward “Zionist” interference.

The reports failed, in the same way that other government-run outlets throughout the Middle East have failed, to explain how viewers are to believe what the network tells them if, as the network claims, “the media” are controlled by the Zionists, and why the Zionists would tell everyone that over and over again through the media.

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