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Voices from inside a major Middle East news network

These quotes come largely from people inside Al Jazeera describing its mission, from calling it a reflection of the collective mind of many nations to explaining how Backbone news drives everything else.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Future
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Nov 07, 2020

The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

Quotes by Wadah Khanfar

Nov 07, 2020

We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

Quotes by Wadah Khanfar

Our
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Nov 07, 2020

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

Quotes by Wadah Khanfar

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations that we report from and we report to, bridge of dialogue. This is what Al Jazeera is all about. Al Jazeera is a mission.

Quotes by Wadah Khanfar

Moment
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Nov 07, 2020

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

Quotes by Karl Rove

Nov 07, 2020

I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.

Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

Current
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Nov 07, 2020

Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.

Quotes by Ben Shapiro

Excellence
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Nov 07, 2020

I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.

Quotes by Al Gore

Other lines highlight what sets it apart from America-based outlets, including its focus on developing stories at the margins that later become some of the network's Big stories.

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