re: #5 Charles

and ignore the more important story — that Al Jazeera itself is nothing but a front for Qatar?

re: #73 Charles

an organization that has been shown by the leaked cables to be nothing more than the official propaganda department of Qatar?

Uhm, they certainly may be a front for Qatar and an “official” propaganda department of Qatar (I don’t think you meant to say “official”, btw, because then they would be on the books for that, badges and all, instead of it being just an opinion expressed in the cables) — but hey certainly are not “nothing but” or “nothing more” than that. They are also a pretty useful english language news organization. For instance, when I wrote about scandals plaguing Wilder’s party, I could not find one other comprehensive source in English at the time other than al-Jazeera. And even if that article I cited there was somehow a screw in some giant Qatari totalitarian propaganda machine — it was still factually correct.