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The foreign gaze makes Al Jazeera America treat nothing as obvious.
So what does this foreign gaze, as presented on Al Jazeera America, reveal?
In fact, Al Jazeera may represent something quite new in the business (though not unprecedented): the foreign gaze for domestic consumption.
Tuesday night one such iteration of the foreign gaze was on display at the Rose Theater, when Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "Sutra" had its American premiere as part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival.
But it's one thing for big media companies from the prosperous West to make these domestic inroads overseas, and another thing for a network based in Qatar to reverse the flow and give Americans their version of the foreign gaze.
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The visit of an Israeli prime minister to Washington is normally cause for the city's foreign-policy gaze to turn toward the Middle East, but this week it is not just the crisis in Ukraine that is overshadowing the arrival of Binyamin Netanyahu at the White House.
These are backdrops for carefully managed photoshoots and the admiring gaze of foreign visitors – who would be much more impressed by the period features that they're busy tearing out.
Nonetheless, the historian complains, "everyone alike fell in love with the enterprise: the old men upon hope to subdue the place they went to or that at least so great a power could not miscarry; and the young men upon desire to see a foreign country and to gaze, making little doubt but to return with safety".
The "Western media gaze" on foreign cultures often lends itself to a harsh fetishization of the culture at hand, typically pushing a black and white narrative in line with a pre-established understanding that a typical viewer might already have.
The said angels in foreign lands must have gazed longingly at the angels in Los Angeles, who were Instagramming the warm weather, beautiful people, facelifts, the ingenuity of Hollywood, aerospace, car culture, military X projects, fashion, palm trees, botox and eternal youth.
When Spaniards complain about the gaze of the foreign media, they may also be lamenting something homegrown.
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