This was a successful start up venture for Al Gore and his investors.
Now it is reported that Al Jazeera English will be expanding it with more money, more news gathering by on-the-ground-reporters in a number of American cities. Just as Gore built up an earlier, smaller operation to where it is now, Al Jazeera will be building on this to a larger, more widely viewed news network. Most of the reviews I've seen, and my own experience, has proven that Al Jazeera has made some serious efforts to be both factually accurate and more balanced than the nut jobs over on Faux News. For the same reasons I try to get at least some of my news from other international sources, which give sometimes very different coverage of events and people than American news outlets, including BBC world, BBC America, the CBC (Canadian radio and television) and some of the continental European media, I look forward to viewing whatever Al Jazeera has to offer with the same critical eye checking for fact and bias.
Once again, the hypocrisy of the Islamohobic right wing rears its ugly head; their capacity for shameful bigotry is only rivaled by their lack of conscience in acknowledging their own shameful deficiencies and failures.
Now it is reported that Al Jazeera English will be expanding it with more money, more news gathering by on-the-ground-reporters in a number of American cities. Just as Gore built up an earlier, smaller operation to where it is now, Al Jazeera will be building on this to a larger, more widely viewed news network. Most of the reviews I've seen, and my own experience, has proven that Al Jazeera has made some serious efforts to be both factually accurate and more balanced than the nut jobs over on Faux News. For the same reasons I try to get at least some of my news from other international sources, which give sometimes very different coverage of events and people than American news outlets, including BBC world, BBC America, the CBC (Canadian radio and television) and some of the continental European media, I look forward to viewing whatever Al Jazeera has to offer with the same critical eye checking for fact and bias.
Once again, the hypocrisy of the Islamohobic right wing rears its ugly head; their capacity for shameful bigotry is only rivaled by their lack of conscience in acknowledging their own shameful deficiencies and failures.
- So, now it remains to be seen, who will take a bigger chunk out of Fox News, MSNBC or the new and improved Al Jazeera English / America? That was a trick question; Fox news IS their own worst enemy, well ahead of anyone else. Even their die hard reality-denying extremist ideologues are getting tired of being lied to by Fox Not-News. It's been downhill for them since they so badly blew the election, and the run up to the election. Wishing them more of the same in 2013; it is such well deserved epic failure.
FWIW, I stopped reading Al-Jazeera English a few months after they started up, partially because I found a better source.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that Al-Jazeera English (at least at that time) didn't report the news as much as it ran stories intended to convince Americans not to fear Islam. Note, I'm not saying this because I think we need to fear Islam or Muslims, or anything of that nature. I note it only because I noticed that the page had a definite editorial bent that was supplanting the reporting of news.
This was coupled with the fact that the stories on Al-Jazeera's Arabic page were completely different stories that had a completely different slant to them--more anti-American and occasionally sympathetic toward Al-Qaida or especially less radical groups.
Frankly, I didn't care for the fact that the organization was slanting the news one way for one audience and another way for another, so I asked my Saudi buddy what paper he would recommend from the Middle East.
He introduced me to Al-Arabiyah:
http://english.alarabiya.net/
They generally present the same stories on all sites, just translated into the proper language.
The slant can sometimes be a bit anti-U.S., but at least it's an honest slant, not just pandering to the particular market with what they think is desired.