Now the Qatar part was new to me--thank you :-) Sounds related to this? "Media Matters Action Network senior foreign policy fellow MJ Rosenbergs column for the liberal organization regularly appears on Al-Jazeeras website and, in 2010, Rosenberg represented Media Matters at a forum hosted by Al-Jazeera in Doha, Qatar where he praised the news outlet as 'mainstream.'":
Media Matters for America linked with anti-American, anti-Israel Al-Jazeera network