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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl Jazeera to launch rightwing media platform targeting US conservatives
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Al Jazeera to launch rightwing media platform targeting US conservatives
Rightly will be led by a former Fox News journalist and is aimed at Republicans who feel left out of conservative media
theguardian.com
10:23 AM · Feb 23, 2021
Molly Jong-Fast🏡
@MollyJongFast
Oh come onnnnnnnnn
Al Jazeera to launch rightwing media platform targeting US conservatives
Rightly will be led by a former Fox News journalist and is aimed at Republicans who feel left out of conservative media
theguardian.com
10:23 AM · Feb 23, 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/23/al-jazeera-rightwing-media-platform-conservatives-rightly
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Al Jazeera to launch rightwing media platform targeting US conservatives (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2021
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onecaliberal
(32,866 posts)1. Fitting for the American Taliban.
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)2. Will they go to Paul Simon for their theme song? 😄
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. How is that supposed to work...a right wing media outlet run by Muslim?
That should go over well with the RWNJs.
On some level that makes sense, pious Muslims actually have more in common with the evangelicals they either want to admit I imagine.
Gregory Peccary
(490 posts)4. "aimed at Republicans who 'feel left out of conservative media'"
What does that mean? Are they going for the whack jobs or the less insane Republicans who don't believe all the Q stuff and conspiracy theories? Seems like the whack jobs already have plenty of options out there.
YorkRd
(326 posts)5. Proof we now live in a "post truth" age!
Will they still have bothsiderism?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,062 posts)6. Custom news for the Tea-liban
RainCaster
(10,892 posts)7. Desperate to fill the void left by Rush Limbaugh
Nature abhors a vacuum
area51
(11,912 posts)8. Whut?