Al-Jazeera seen as using Al Gore
to bolster network’s legitimacy in United States
Is Al-Jazeera trying to use former Vice
President Al Gore to gain acceptance in America? Yes, say some experts.
On Wednesday it was announced that the
Qatari-funded news station had purchased Current TV, the liberal cable channel
co-founded by Gore, for a reported $500 million. Gore and fellow co-founder
Joel Hyatt will join the advisory board of Al-Jazeera America, the network set
to replace Current TV.
Al-Jazeera, which currently has both
English and Arabic language stations, is seen by many as having an anti-Israel
and anti-American slant.
“I have a guess, an impression, that
Al-Jazeera is looking for more respectability and more — not just more market
outlets — but more of an image of being let’s say ’non-partisan’ or ‘mainstream,’ whatever you
want to call it,” David Pollock, a scholar at the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy who has written on Al-Jazeera and often appears as a commentator on
the network, told The Daily Caller.
“They did this before by setting up
their own organization in the U.S. and hiring some legitimate journalists who
ended up resigning in disgust when
Source: Daily Caller
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