Re:A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell
by linkregister on Thursday December 29, 2016 @05:17PM
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Al Jazeera English is a good news source. It definitely goes off the rails with its opinion pages, but its investigative journalism is top-notch. It's probably good to consume it with BBC, NPR, Foreign Policy, Moscow Times, and the National Review to get a good basket of viewpoints.
Re:A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell
by throwaway122916 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:02PM
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Al Jazeera is anti-Israel and Anti-Russia for the most part because of Qatar's foreign policy interests.
BBC is anti-Russia, but more neutral on other issues.
Re:A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell
by pjc50 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:42PM
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News sources that don't get described as "anti-Israel and Anti-Russia" are almost certainly untrustworthy. The question is whether they also are willing to cover the west negatively where appropriate too.
Re:A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell
by linkregister on Thursday December 29, 2016 @05:21PM
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Haaretz and Moscow Times often post stories critical of their governments' actions. I know it's easier to make blanket statements to form an effective filter in the modern deluge of information, but it's not enough. I guess there are worse optimizations to make.
Re:A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell
by throwaway122916 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:48PM
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Sure. Like Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates and Ukraine. When all of those have negative stories about them I'm sold.
Re:A CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell
by hindsightbias on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:12PM
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RT is anti AJ and BBC, and you can see Chomsky there.
It's not completely without bias (no one is, especially the BBC running scared of their own shadow post-Hutton), but it is a good place to find other points of view and shows some incredible documentaries and highlights some stories from around the world that western news channels just ignore either because of cost, because they are beholden to corporate sponsors or because it's just not entertaining enough.
As with the BBC, having state sponsorship can actually work well to provide funding to fill in the gaps that market-driven news leaves behind.
Yes, it happens that the country sponsoring Al Jazeera is a piece of shit for human rights and democracy but this isn't reflected in the output of AJE which feels like it has a good degree of editorial independence. It's not Russia Today by any means.