"the word objectivity is an illusion"


So true when watching the news.... When hours are spent talking about the fallen soldiers yet the casualties of war are told to us maybe once or twice a year.

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Originally posted by psychoraver al jazeera VS zionism...... thats what it's really about

amen to that.

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Originally posted by psychoraver i think a perfect example of zionism is the way Ron Paul has been shut up of the media and many examples of deliberate bias are obvious

Wow! People I agree with.

Such horrible luck lately.

You guys are crazy

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN dont argue with the yanks nutter, they know best!

Nope, Ron Paul has been shut out of the media.

Who knows why really. He does have some odd ideas but he's got enough good ones, and enough money, that he should be getting much more press.

At least the economist has made some minor note of him, but they don't seem to have a good grasp on what he's done to gain the popularity he has.

Al-Jazeera is funded by Qatar gov...which has the biggest american army base in the middle east....

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Originally posted by limpboy Al-Jazeera is funded by Qatar gov...which has the biggest american army base in the middle east....

Funded, but not run, by the Qatar government..

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Originally posted by limpboy Al-Jazeera is funded by Qatar gov...which has the biggest american army base in the middle east....

Qatar doesn't exactly have a 'government' funding Al-Jazeera so to speak, it's subsidized by the Emir for Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa. That isn't terribly different from the BBC btw.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

I get Al-Jazeera on digi cable here and most of their staff seem to be Brit ex-pats (or at least British schooled judging by the accents).

Their news isn't as sensationalist as I was expecting and they cover a lot of stuff that "western" media doesn't and this is outside of the mid-east even. Lots of southeast asian and african reporting.

I can't say it's fully without bias, because judging some of the more "quiet" bias is so hard in media these days. But, they do seem to be fairly objective even when reporting on hotspots like Palestine and Iraq.

That being said, I haven't tuned into any of their news-magazine shows, so they might be a little more direct/pointed/critical/biased (however you might want to describe it) depending on the subject matter at hand.

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I like BBC and Al-Jazeera far better than any media outlet here in the states, by far! But I do like MSNBC and CNN..

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Originally posted by pmoisse I get Al-Jazeera on digi cable here and most of their staff seem to be Brit ex-pats (or at least British schooled judging by the accents). Their news isn't as sensationalist as I was expecting and they cover a lot of stuff that "western" media doesn't and this is outside of the mid-east even. Lots of southeast asian and african reporting. I can't say it's fully without bias, because judging some of the more "quiet" bias is so hard in media these days. But, they do seem to be fairly objective even when reporting on hotspots like Palestine and Iraq. That being said, I haven't tuned into any of their news-magazine shows, so they might be a little more direct/pointed/critical/biased (however you might want to describe it) depending on the subject matter at hand.

Alot of BBC staff memebers joined Al-Jazeera when it started which shows they were fairly enthusiastic about it.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller