Why do people consider Al Jazeera as a trusted source?
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There are places (Ground News is a good one IMO) where you can see how biases are broken down by factors like factual accuracy and political alignment.
how biases are broken down by factors like factual accuracy and political alignment.
Which they determined based entirely on their own biases.
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I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?
Why wouldn't they?
It's hard not to interpret this comment in a western chauvinistic light.
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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?
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Did you reply to the wrong comment?
I don't believe so.
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I don't believe so.
Ok. Seemed odd that you'd leave a comment with no relation to mine in response.
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Ok. Seemed odd that you'd leave a comment with no relation to mine in response.
if you want to argue with me then please reply to the other comment. Or don't, I have better things I could be doing and I doubt either of us have much to gain from it.
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I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?
You need to receive news from a broad variety of sources, not just those that agree with your viewpoint or have a particular agenda.
Al Jazeera obviously have a pro-Qatari but less so than Fox News for example or any billionaire owned newspaper/TV channel have biases.
Aggregate from all sides and the truth will be somewhere in the middle.
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I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Even if you don't like al jazeera, remember they're some of the few who cover Gaza in person and a whole lot of Africa and other developing nations. I don't blindly trust them, but many western news agencies are barely reporting on the same thing. If they're not covering these nations, why are we complaining about one of the networks that do it?
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I'm not American. bbc is also a external news source for me.
I'm not even from an english speaking country. Virtually all media I read online is foreign to me. Remember you can still buy printed magazines and publications, but these are in your native culture.
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I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?
Does anyone have a link to the bbc paywall thread?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?
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.
