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Last March, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that Qatar's wildly popular 24-hour news satellite channel Al-Jazeera is not only the biggest media phenomenon to hit the Arab world since the advent of television, it also is the biggest political phenomenon. Commentators continued to heap praise on the Arabic-language news channel, which has managed to enrage Arab authoritarian ...