- Qatar-based al-Jazeera provided intense coverage of the uprisings in the Middle East, almost cheering along the protesters. But when tanks from Saudi Arabia rolled in to neighboring Bahrain in, the network’s reporting was only sporadic and markedly neutral, critics say. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/al-jazeera-tv-network-draws-criticism-praise-for-coverage-of-arab-revolutions/2011/05/08/afohws2g_story.html 88 comments worldnews