In fact, Al Jazeera was founded only after the BBC closed its Arabic language station under Saudi pressure. Al Jazeera's motto, "opinion and opposing opinion," has galvanized Arab viewers, because clashing opinions are rarely heard on terrestrial Arab television stations.
半岛无疑是非常职业的。它的骨干记者都受过西方教育，其中很多人曾在BBC任职多年。实际上，只是在BBC迫于沙特压力关闭阿拉伯语频道之后，半岛电视台才得以建立。半岛的格言"观点和反面观点"已经给阿拉伯观众留下了深刻的印象，因为在阿拉伯大陆电视台，人们几乎听不到针锋相对的观点冲撞。