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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I think maybe you are thinking of something else.
al-Jazeera English is pretty neutral, because they focus on global news rather than just one country or another. They do tend to be critical of the USA but their criticism is from the perspective of the world, not the introverted perspective of American journalism.
al-Jazeera American tends to a less critical perspective of America, because that's where they're stationed. Most of the stuff I read on al-Jazeera doesn't bring up any particular emotion against my country. It's mostly just facts of "this happened" and "this person has this education" and the usual who what where when and how. The "why" they leave to editorials, OR to statements from whoever they're talking about.
They were banned from China and censored by them for a piece they did on China's prison system, and Egypt jailed 3 of their journalists for reporting on the country's Coup d'etat in 2013.
The journalists were ultimately pardoned but their arrest and imprisonment was a world-wide story that brought people from around the globe to protest against Egypt for suppressing facts that al-Jazeera had reported on.
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We tend to think everything is new. All news is biased. I read a book about the Wright Brothers. First powered flight was 1903. They were a world event. They wrote tons of letters etc and many still exist. Interesting to me. They criticized the same things we discuss today. Reporters, not knowing, understanding what they were reporting.
Reporters, feeding off each others misinformation. Powered flight and flight were world
competition. The Wright Brothers complained about reporters national bias.