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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Dude Al Jazeera's fuckin fantastic

It is quite literally the only news I'm aware of which is (1) fairly big and professional, competent (2) not automatically pro-Western on everything (3) not run by some government, and filled with stories about how that government's great and any bad stories about it are evil lies

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 7 months ago

While not run by the government, the Al Jazeera Media Network is partially funded by the government of Qatar. I don’t think this is a negative, but something people should be aware of.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah fair enough. If you want to know shady things about Jared Kushner (edit: or good things about Israel), they're probably not gonna say a god damned word.

[-] xgranade 3 points 7 months ago

Even aside from potential or actual bias, there's a pretty wide gap between bias and the incitement that the Israeli government is accusing Al Jazeera of. I don't have to fully endorse the entirety of Al Jazeera's coverage to think that shutting them down and criminalizing them is a pretty huge overreach.

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