How would Al Jazeera becoming a popular news source be a good thing, if you now know that the network is a US gov't shill?
There's no progress, only perceived progress, where the US gov't gave you the illusion of choice of news networks.
There's no progress, only perceived progress, where the US gov't gave you the illusion of choice of news networks.
Also I would argue this does not make them a shill. A shill has a very close association with the other entity, and the shill's number one purpose is promoting the other entity. It hardly sounds like that is the case here.
[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...