Talk:Roya TV

This article is basically an ad, and for some reason being kept as one
Someone just removed my report of German public broadcaster DW cancelling its collaboration with Roya TV over the alleged discovery of antisemitic comments and cartoons, probably the most notable news one could think of regarding Roya TV outside of Jordan. The excuse inexplicably given was "WP:SYNTH", but the event (i.e. suspension of partnership) was presented as a factual occurrence and the reason was shown as a direct quote from the primary source, Deutsche Welle, that was also qualified as "purported". The accusations of anti-Israeli and antisemitic bias from VICE Germany was entered as the historical trigger of the DW investigation (which itself was previously removed for WP:SYNTH).

Yet right now we rather uniquely have Roya TV's "operational mandate" and a popular cooking show that joined in 2012 as the main features of the article stub. Looking over the edit history, any meaningful additions are swiftly removed.

Considering that Roya TV (by its own claims, and external research) "continues to be the most watched channel in Jordan and Palestine" for several years running and is also very popular in other countries (e.g. the UAE), it is bizarre that it isn't given or allowed a similar depth of overview as Al Jazeera, CNN, BBC, Haaretz or RT News. Notably, even Saudi Arabia's MBC, claimed as the second most popular channel in Jordan as of 2022, has a wiki article with a lot more depth as well as sections for controversies and criticism (including the government arrests, which similarly occurred with Roya TV but was edited out). Roya TV is available in my country, Australia, via mysatgo, but every other news channel on that platform unsurprisingly has more depth on their Wikipedia entries.

Why is Roya TV a special case?

And we shouldn't have to hide the fact that Roya TV, like Iranian news channels (e.g. PressTV), does not recognise Israel as a country despite the Jordanian government recognising Israel since 1994. Despite being noteworthy news itself (and easily verifiable from the primary source as of today, 30th April 2023), it can understandably have geopolitical ramifications and shape public discourse. 202.130.220.167 (talk) 01:23, 30 April 2023 (UTC)