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Remember that politics move quickly, and people and their opinions evolve.
The New York Times Profiles Al-Akhbar
December 29, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui
Robert F Worth on Al-Akhbar:
a five-year-old paper that has become the most dynamic and daring in Lebanon, and perhaps anywhere in the Arab world. In a region where the news media are still full of obsequious propaganda, Al Akhbar is now required reading, even for those who abhor its politics.
Worth does a rather good job explaining that Al-Akhbar, while sympathetic to Hezbollah and its causes, is not controlled by the party, but that it is a Leftist anti-establishment (I would even say contrarian) news outlet.