Refuting Conservative Propaganda: Domain Why do young people in the US read and watch AJ+ media and not realize it is propaganda for Hamas, Al-Qaeda, and other Qatar funded radical extremist groups?

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Why do young people in the US read and watch AJ+ media and not realize it is propaganda for Hamas, Al-Qaeda, and other Qatar funded radical extremist groups?

Let me ask you a question, with all due respect:

Why do so many white males who identify as Christian and adhere to Republican/conservative political beliefs ask questions such as this one and use “Prager U” videos from YouTube as “proof’ of anything?

First, I seriously doubt that great numbers of Americans (young, middle-aged, or old) watch or read Al-Jazeera English or any of its associated English language content, including AJ+, on cable TV or online. Some people might, after all, do so, either because (a) Al-Jazeera actually has more actual news-related content than its U.S.-based counterparts (including WarnerMedia’s CNN and “New Fox”-owned Fox News Channel) or (b) they are not narrow-minded and want a different perspective on the news and opinions that shape our lives.

As even former Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton observed about Al-Jazeera:

“Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and—you know—arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which—you know—is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners."

Second, I think that the problem conservative Americans have about any news media organization that is based in Qatar or any other Muslim country is that…it is a foreign media outfit with a point of view (or editorial slant) that may often be critical of the U.S. or its government’s policies, especially when it involves the Global War on Terror.

In other words, if it’s not American and if the news is not 100% pro-American (which can be interpreted as “pro-American conservatives”), then it must be, ipso facto, “propaganda for the bad guys.”

(This allows one to make the following observation: Larry King and other Americans work for RT, the Russian Federation’s state-owned television channel that is pro-Putin. Where is the right-wing outrage in that? What’s that sound? Is it…a stifling silence?)

Now, I don’t watch AJ+ or anything with the Al-Jazeera brand, in part because I don’t think my cable package includes it. I do know that Dave Marash, who used to work for ABC News before going on to work for Al-Jazeera, quit in 2009 because he believed the network had a “reflexive adversarial editorial stance” against the United States. Since then, however, many American news professionals have joined Al Jazeera and point out that the network has worked hard to shed its image of being anti-American.

Basically, if Al-Jazeera has a bad reputation among conservatives, it’s because right-wing outlets such as Prager U (which is not a university but a YouTube channel owned by Dennis Prager) and Fox News Channel accuse Al-Jazeera of being a propaganda machine for Islamic extremists.

This is ironic; it’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Clinton quote source: Al Jazeera English - Wikipedia