Al Jazeera America officially began broadcasting to U.S. cable viewers on August 20. Al Jazeera now has the ability to reach directly into 48 million American homes, roughly half of the country’s cable subscribers.

Although Al Jazeera is one of the largest world news agencies, it has never been very popular in America. Al Jazeera gained a reputation of being anti-American when it became the first news agency to show Osama bin Laden defending the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Though Al Jazeera still has a negative connotation associated with it in the United States, it has been gaining positive publicity. Huffington Post analyst Michael Calderone believes Al Jazeera is facing an uphill battle but is gaining credibility because of its reporting on the Arab Spring. He also raises the question of how America will react to a news agency that is funded by the Qatari government.

Al Jazeera is struggling, partly because it is a foreign-based news source that is now attempting to focus on domestic issues in America. This has caused fears among critics that Al Jazeera America is going to be used as a “soft-power instrument” to be used in order to promote issues important to its foreign owners.

However, some U.S. politicians endorse Al Jazeera. Hilary Clinton said, “It’s real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock.” Real Clear Politics writer John Arlidge reported that the White House has Al Jazeera on 24/7 in the Situation Room. Sen. John McCain said during the start of the Arab Spring:

When that young man who was humiliated by the police in front of his friends and compatriots and family decided to burn himself to death, that would have been confined in earlier years to a single isolated incident, and it was Al Jazeera, it was Al Jazeera, that spread the story time and time again, so that it permeated the conscience, not only of the Tunisians, but of countries throughout the Arab world ….

Al Jazeera helped show the world the event that would trigger the Arab Spring. Some congratulated it, like Senator McCain, and others feared the results of its reporting.

Arlidge questions: “Could Al Jazeera turn out to be an unwitting accessory to an Islamic revolution that will leave the most febrile region of the word even more dangerous?”

In 2001, Al Jazeera was the medium by which Osama bin Laden could broadcast to the world; now Al Jazeera is being acclaimed as the voice of the oppressed people throughout the Middle East. Either way you see it, Al Jazeera does more than just report the news, as do most other broadcasting companies. And it is especially challenging to determine the motive of a news agency when it is funded by its country’s own government.

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