Why do people consider Al Jazeera as a trusted source?
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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.
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Al Jazeera is funded by the Qatari government. Make of that what you will.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The BBC is funded by britain
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Scepticism should always be applied to any state-run media.
Private media is not any more trustworthy than state run.
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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?
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Private media is not any more trustworthy than state run.
Please refer to the other comment where I address this.
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Be careful with the taking average mindset. It's a default human one, and it's being abused. A lot of media outlets (particularly American right wing) are mouthpieces for the same few groups or people.
Instead, try and look at their biases. Do they have a reason to mislead you. What akin do they have in a particular game. E.g. the BBC is still fairly unbiased on a lot of world news. They are far less unbiased on middle eastern politics now.
It's an annoyingly complex problem to solve, on the fly.
E.g. the BBC is still fairly unbiased on a lot of world news.
No? Why do you think this?
They are far less unbiased on middle eastern politics now.
Have you considered that you may have only noticed that they're aren't unbiased on the middle east.
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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.
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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.
