Twenty Years of Al Jazeera English: The Counternarrative | Documentary

In November 2006, Al Jazeera English went stay with an audacious mandate: to problem the normal hegemony of Western media conglomerates and structurally invert the worldwide information stream by offering a localised, uncompromising perspective from the International South to the English-speaking world. To mark its twentieth anniversary, this documentary delivers a definitive, multilayered chronicle of AJE’s trajectory from a disruptive different to dominant Western information media to the globally consumed information supply it’s at the moment. The movie seamlessly pairs an outside-in investigative lens with ground-up human testimony and inner insights. The movie displays on AJE’s historic protection of world conflicts, the local weather disaster, genocide and extra in a drastically altering media panorama, all whereas balancing troublesome choices concerning the place to focus assets, battling stigma as state-funded media and weathering the focusing on of the channel’s journalists and bureaus whereas attempting to stay true to AJE’s core ideas.