Okay - so what does your problem with a brand of Wahhabism have to do with this video on Chomsky, apart from it being from Al Jazeera’s show? Does media manipulation work differently in Qatar or Saudi Arabia? Does money here equal speech, so I should conclude that if there is any such financial connection that it is some kind of hypocritical burn against the US? Is watching this on YouTube somehow funding oppression?
The currents of cultural influence here are not easily untangled. There are US interests which profit both from destabilization in some Muslim countries and the resulting Islamophobia, as well as doing business with elites in other Muslim countries. Yes, it is a reckless, hypocritical, and cynical clusterfuck.
But I still think that teaching media literacy in this way helps the overall situation rather than hurts it. And since I don’t have any easy answers to fix it all, I will take the help where I can get it, and be happy that there are some people out there trying to teach rather than profit off of strife and imperialism.
