It’s not a good idea to get news on Middle East from the participants of the ongoing war. Lots of sob stories, nothing on chainsawing journalists. If only SA and Iran stopped fighting their proxy war there that’d be a good start.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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… did you mix up Yemen and Saudi Arabia? What does the murder of Khashoggi have to do with Houthis in Yemen shooting kids?
The woman interviewed also isn’t a participant in a war, she’s a civilian and and mother of a murdered child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)
Part of the Yemeni crisis and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi
Khashoggi was the editor of the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al Watan, which was considered a platform for Saudi progressives.[12] Khashoggi fled Saudi Arabia in September 2017 and went into self-imposed exile. He said that the Saudi government had "banned him from Twitter",[13]and he later wrote newspaper articles critical of the Saudi government. Khashoggi had been critical of the Saudi rulers, King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.[14] He also opposed the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN)[a] is a Qatari news media organization headquartered in Wadi Al Sail, Doha.[3] It is a statutory private foundation for public benefit, and is primarily funded by the government of Qatar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Udeid_Air_Base
Al Udeid Air Base (Arabic: قاعدة العديد الجوية; also known as Abu Nakhlah Airport (مطار أبو نخلة)) is one of two military bases to the southwest of Doha, Qatar, in the municipality of Al Rayyan. It is the largest US military base in the Middle East, hosting approximately 10,000 military personnel as of 2026.[5]
Quatar isn’t neutral and neither is Al Jazeera who unsurprisingly ~~never~~ covered murder of Khashoggi years later and in very little capacity [edit - correction as I didn’t keep checking for years if Al Jazeera started reporting on this]
Occasional sob story when it fits your interest while ignoring inconvenient is media manipulation, distraction, whatever you want to call it. There are much bigger things of interest right now.
World is a complex and scary place.
Qatar and Turkey also aren’t Yemen, and the Houthis are specifically anti-Saudi, which was the state that killed Kashoggi in Turkey. I’m still confused why you think the human aspects of war (which include the murder of Khashoggi) are unworthy of being reported on.
‘Who cares about this civilian’s dead kid, we’ve got bigger problems’ is a deranged response to this kind of story. Not telling these stories from survivors is as much propaganda as you view telling the stories, because it would be pretending it’s not happening.
I brought some more receipts via edits, should federate back sooner or later.
I see them, it doesn’t change how confused I am over why you’re acting like the killing of a civilian teen by Houthis who oppose Saudi Arabia is somehow eating away at opportunities to talk more about the murder of Khashoggi, a journalist murdered in a completely different country by a country they oppose.
War in Yemen caused deaths of 85000 Yemeni children. Why not cover this and how SA and Iran are involved?
It’s what BBC and other Anglo-Saxon/Israeli media sphere do - ignore big picture, ignore context, report on individual tragedies when forced to address ongoing events.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/9/iran-likely-smuggling-weapons-to-yemen-confidential-report
It seems to me like they’ve been covering those subjects.
How much do they have to report before they’re allowed to interview a mother whose child was murdered?
Yemen has been racked by war since 2014, pitting Iran-backed Houthi rebels against the internationally recognised government and a Saudi Arabian-led military force.
See how this is framed? That’s the only mention of SA in the first article. It’s repeated verbatim in the second one.
Al Jazeera shouldn’t be used for news concerning Middle East. If they were silent on Khashoggi because it’s inconvenient for SA then what other things they will keep quiet on? They’re pretty good for international news as long as SA doesn’t have an interest in the matter but that’s becoming less and less given how far they reach now.
If you’re being dishonest about about Al Jazeera’s coverage of Khashoggi why should I take anything else you say at face value? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/timeline-of-the-murder-of-journalist-jamal-khashoggi
How much do they have to report before they’re allowed to interview a mother whose child was murdered?
He was killed in 2018 so let’s wait 3 years before posting those news from Al Jazeera.
Media manipulation is also about what’s not being shown.
I can’t believe I have to argue for not relying on journalism from an outlet that has conflict of interest at its core. SA is one of the major sides of this conflict. Al Jazeera will avoid presenting SA in bad light. That’s all there is to it and you’re not convinced by receipts so I’ll just let you go on on your merry day.
Keep moving those goalposts. That was just the first relevant article I found by typing ‘Khashoggi’ into their search bar; I have no idea if it was the first they published and frankly I don’t think you do either, since one comment ago your claim was that they didn’t report on it at all.
Nobody should get all their news from one agency or even one country, and they should read all of it with a critical eye. American papers failing to tell stories like this is also an example of media manipulation through what isn’t being told; hiding the devastating human impact of these conflicts would be a form of whitewashing and propaganda.
Claiming I’m the one not convinced by ‘receipts’ (a handful of Wikipedia articles that are only broadly related to the conflicts in question) in response to being shown you have made an objectively false claim tells me you’re not interested in good faith, so bye 👋
Claiming I’m the one not convinced by ‘receipts’ (a handful of Wikipedia articles that are only broadly related to the conflicts in question)
Yes, the Wikipedia article on Yemen civil war is too broad. Good bye, wasted too much time already.