why is it so- a semblance of free press but actually not. What is at stake here if they allow a true free press? Afraid of their own shadows? Maybe so, a simple case of this: just a few days ago genesis initiated a thread about an internal memo from a govt. corporation, which was btw, also published by a local broadsheet(?). But the mods deleted it here. Another pile of dust swept under...

If a caricature were to be made of Al Jazeera it would be this: a reporter peeking from a fence reporting the garbage that he sees on the other side of the fence, but he is standing on a pile of garbage within his side of the fence!