A "Hard News" Channel?

there's also CNN's International News broadcast for an hour each day (its on around noon or 1 p.m. eastern) that's strictly hard news... none of the "entertainment"/"sex" stories that pass for news on a regular broadcast.

 

Take a look:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/55ABE840-AC30-41D2-BDC9-06BBE2A36665.htm

and:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/?ok

Whither Britney?

 

Trying to keep abreast of the situation, huh?

 

Al-Jazeera is an Al-Qaeda sympathizer. Period.
I hope Dave Marash is happy that he ruined his career.

 

Ah, no.
But carry on.

 

And our media is considered a bunch of Bush sympathizers, a bunch of ragdolls.

Al-Jazeera puts together a report based on a Middle Eastern viewpoint. Maybe they call suicide bombers "martyrs" -- I wouldn't know. But watching a newscast like that may give you and I a perspective on the situation there that we ain't gettin' from CNN, Fox and MSNBC.

 

And it's all the press releases from Al-Qaeda.

 

It is, eh?

I'm sure you've sat there and watched?

 

Yes, I have.
They are so biased it's disgusting.
They almost revel every time a US soldier gets killed.

 

Interesting, because Al-Jazeera is almost completely underwritten by the Qatari government. Qatar being one of our largest forward staging areas for the war in Iraq.

Al-Arabiya, on the other hand, is financed by the Saudis. Al-hurra, the network begun by the US, is the one no one in that region watches.

 

The facts, again: Al-Jazeera was started by BBC journalists, and has pissed off just about every leader in the region, be he moderate or radical. So it must be doing something right. Al-Jazeera is the strawiest of strawmen.

 

Definitely the best time of the day to watch CNN. Real news for an hour-what a novel concept!