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Originally Posted by ninty
A technicality, but people say al jazeera this al jazeera that...al jazeera is probably the closest to an unbiased source of news you can getin the middle east. People in northa america watch al jazeera. You can get it on canadian satellite. I have a friend whose parents get ti and watch it. Their not suicide bombers or anti american or any of this nonsense. Al jazeera isn't a bad channel persay. Their the same thing as fox, except on the other side of the fence.
From their website:
[quote:79ced]Free from the shackles of censorship and government control Aljazeera has offered its audiences in the Arab world much needed freedom of thought, independence, and room for debate. In the rest of the world, often dominated by the stereotypical thinking of news “heavyweights”, Aljazeera offers a different and a new perspective.
Aljazeera's correspondents opened a window for the world on the millennium’s first two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our expanded coverage competed with and sometimes outperformed our competitors bringing into the spotlight the war’s devastating impact on the lives of ordinary people.
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Now of course they can say whatever they want on their website, but I think people have unfairly latched onto al jazeera and proclaimed they were the sole source of propaganda in the middle east. I would think that a state sponsored media program would do a much better job of propaganda.
Anyway, just wanted to point that out.[/quote:79ced]al jazeera shows what its really like over there, while other news sources paint you a pretty picture.