I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?
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Can’t speak to anything but Al Jazeera America. Short lived, but they promised unbiased news. And gods was it unbiased, flat as paste. Really woke me up to how I’d come to expect entertainment in my news and not simple facts.
News shouldn’t be entertaining; it should be factual and unbiased.
almost all the current MSM in usa, is entertainment, they are basically fox-lite, so its heavily sensationalized, or basically a tabloids to get click and viewers.
Yes and that’s a damn strong argurment on why it’s a bad idea.
and it most leans right wing too, which is even worst because its more or less propaganda.
there was an asian source that was very similar, flat and unbiased, but i forgot which one was it.
Their original staff was a bunch of pretty serious journalists sourced from the BBC.
Imo it’s not about saying this or that org is least biased or less biased, it’s acknowledging the biases present in all news orgs and comparing the reporting from multiple sources.
There’s a saying among BBC journalists that all who work there eventually end up at Al Jazeera.
Watch one of my favorite documentaries of all time, Control Room (2004) about coverage of the Iraq War.
Al Jazeera is far from perfect, and I’d argue has fallen from its peak in terms of quality. But it’s still worth viewing to get a more well rounded perspective.
Now do I believe they can cover topics that hit close to Qatari interests? Not necessarily. For those I take with a grain of salt.
How so? Higher wages/ better benefits compared to BBC?
Yes, Al Jazeera is biased. But way less than other news sources in the area, and way better than many large American “news” sources.
How about you give your supported and and reasoned opinions for why it is an untrustworthy source?
Scepticism should always be applied to any state-run media.
Is it better for media to be privately owned by billionaires?
No, definitely not. I don’t think there is any news source I would trust 100%. You need to seek out multiple sources and try to sus it out yourself. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. I don’t claim to have all the answers but in my experience state media tends to be less than trustworthy. I’d say BBC is okay but they’ve had some big fuck ups before.
in my experience state media tends to be less than trustworthy.
How did you determine that?
I’d say BBC is okay
You haven’t been watching their year and a half of genocide support?
I’d be happy to consider your argument. First I ask you to pease refer me to some trustworthy state media.
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
I don’t believe so.
Ok. Seemed odd that you’d leave a comment with no relation to mine in response.
Private media is not any more trustworthy than state run.
Please refer to the other comment where I address this.
Where?
The second comment of mine you replied to.
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Like any media it is legit at certain topics and not at others
Does anyone have a link to the bbc paywall thread?
Becuase it was founded with the same journalistic practices as the BBC.
Sounds very middle eastern.
Based on the name alone I assumed it was something like Bloomberg (I believe they do financial/world news) and state media from some middle eastern country.Please keep in mind that I don’t watch any domestic traditional TV and at best some clips our local media network uploads to theirbrespective youtube channels.
Cherry pick a few topics you know incredibly well and look at their published articles on those subjects.
Did they cover your area of expertise correctly with nuance and giving the appropriate context?
If yes, now you have more confidence that the articles in other areas are also well written and researched.
If no, now you have less confidence in them
You can apply the above strategy to any news source. For many people the above protocol gives good results with aj.
Cherry pick a few topics you know incredibly well and look at their published articles on those subjects.
If they ever write an article on the In N out secret menu I’ll let you know
As we quickly learned during the George W Bush era, no news media agency can be trusted. To counter this, check reporting of the same incident from multiple news agencies and find the consistent facts. Everything else is suspect.
In a hurry, see if Reuters or AP has covered it, but verify when you have the time.
Done this way AJ is perfectly viable as a source for news, in that the bias can be filtered out.
FOX and OANN are known to lie or misrepresent facts entirely, but that gets filtered through cross-checking.
Trust, but verify.
Well…Anyone has an agenda.
Even the most passive person when put in charge will have a personal philosophy they’ll follow.You’ve been on this account for two years. Happy birthday
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And now I’ve been here for two years
Happy cake day!
Al Jazeera is the mouthpiece of a hostile foreign power (to me). Its also sickeningly, cloyingly coated with hate for the US throughout any segment. I will on occasion read something that’s been generically reposted, recognize the writing style, and then confirm that it came from AJ. Its so tilted that it reminds me of Fox News. And I don’t watch Fox News either.
Al Jazeera is funded by the Qatari government. Make of that what you will.
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Its a large organization. There’s Al Jazeera, and then there’s its Al Jazeera English subdivision which operates with widely different team. The latter has a reputation for high quality journalism and has won multiple awards for it - the former exhibits more bias in its reporting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_awarded_to_Al_Jazeera_English
I would say the BBC is no more trusted and should not be any more trusted than AJ English. Each have biases and each are capable of very high quality investigative journalism.
