Jordan’s new Anti-Aljazeera policy: The mistake and non-mistake

The release of the sta­tis­tics shocked the Jor­dan­ian Gov­ern­ment. The fig­ures show that Aljazeera is the most pop­u­lar TV Chan­nel in Jor­dan 65% of the Jor­da­ni­ans con­sider Aljazeera as the reli­able local, Arab, inter­na­tional news source.

Jor­dan­ian writ­ers started to write arti­cles in favor of Aljazeera com­pared to the Jor­dan­ian local TV and Satel­lite Channels.

Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported that Anti-“Muslim Broth­ers” and Anti-Hamas Jor­dan­ian writer Salih Al-Kalab (years ago Hamas asked the Jor­dan­ian Gov­ern­ment to silence Kalab) appointed as the head of the Jor­dan­ian TV, means more strict con­trol on the offi­cial Jordan’s TV. Kalab gives a glimpse of his future media pol­icy “Jor­dan is always right”:

Gov­ern­ment makes mis­takes, offi­cials make mis­takes, Jor­dan as a state never makes mis­takes, this is the one thing Gov­ern­ment and oppo­si­tion must agree upon … Talk­ing in satel­lite chan­nels against your coun­try is a mis­take …  Agree­ment “Wadi Araba” with Israel is not a mistake.…

A pol­icy imple­mented directly with ban­ning Jor­dan­ian writer Mowafaq Al Mahadeen for crit­i­ciz­ing Jordan’s for­eign pol­icy of help­ing the U.S. in Afghanistan say­ing that Jor­dan has one enemy, and it is Israel.