Given this history, and the storm of calls for reform in the Arab world, it is a tragic irony that America and the West have paid so little attention to the terrestrial Arab monopoly television channels. Indeed, US criticism of Al Jazeera sounds more like special pleading because of America's inept bumbling in Iraq than a genuine desire for free, open, and critical Arab media.
有了这样的历史背景和阿拉伯世界高涨的改革呼声，美国和西方世界还如此忽视阿拉伯大陆的垄断电视频道，不能不说是个悲剧性的讽刺。实际上，美国在伊拉克的拙劣表演之后，它对半岛电视台的批评更像是在要求某种特权，而不是真心希望看到自由、开放、观点鲜明的阿拉伯媒介。