Having stakes in a conflict really tints your perspective even for those respectable organizations… That’s annoying.
I noticed the same with aljazeera. They are regarded as really good neutral journalists on a whole list of topics. I honestly didn’t expect a very foreign news organization to have such nuanced takes, but they consistently made a better job in their reporting than a lot of US or EU journalists. But when it came to something they are involved in, you can see their neutral reporting slowly decay - it’s sad to watch.
That’s how propaganda stations like that work, they say what they want about things that don’t negatively affect Qatar or Iran so that they’re more effective in pushing things that their paymaster want pushed.
Having stakes in a conflict really tints your perspective even for those respectable organizations… That’s annoying.
I noticed the same with aljazeera. They are regarded as really good neutral journalists on a whole list of topics. I honestly didn’t expect a very foreign news organization to have such nuanced takes, but they consistently made a better job in their reporting than a lot of US or EU journalists. But when it came to something they are involved in, you can see their neutral reporting slowly decay - it’s sad to watch.
That’s how propaganda stations like that work, they say what they want about things that don’t negatively affect Qatar or Iran so that they’re more effective in pushing things that their paymaster want pushed.