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Roy323 Wrote: Jan 10, 2013 2:43 PM

Al Gore will do whatever makes "Al Gore" a Yankee Dollar (or a Qatar Dollar), so I cannot argue with his capitalism endeavors. Having said that, I will NEVER watch any production that has anything to do with Mr Gore, including Al Jazeera . I think it likely those two entities deserve each other!

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From Al Gore to Al Jazeera

A few years back I was interviewed about some development in the Middle East by a reporter from Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned television news channel. Afterwards, we sat for a while and talked journalism. He mentioned that he had previously worked for Al Jazeera. I asked why he had left. “Too many Islamists,” he said. “They made me uncomfortable.”

It’s bizarre: We used to know a lot about Al Jazeera. At what point did amnesia set in? The station was launched in November 1996. Two months after al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York and Washington, Fouad Ajami, the Lebanese-born American scholar,

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