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We Really Don’t Need Another Conservative News Platform
Al Jazeera’s new outlet for “center-right” viewers is the latest entry into a very crowded space.
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Speaking to
The Nation in 2014, Ehab Al Shihabi, then the CEO of the recently launched Al Jazeera America, made the case that Americans were desperate for serious, unbiased, old-fashioned hard news. “If we do the kind of reporting that is considered ‘back to the future’ the hardcore journalistic reporting, not biased, not for entertainment, but fact-based do we have a place? All the research indicates yes,” he said. A year earlier, Shihabi suggested that there were as many as 50 million Americans seeking what Al Jazeera America had to offer.