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Originally Posted by Usehername
The general consensus from the politics profs at my university is that Al Jazeera is one of the most unbiased large sources out there. Sure, I could've used an American source, but it's sort of ironic that you call it biased. Because if you compare it to mainstream American press re: stuff published that Bush claimed to be true (and all that stuff we found out later that wasn't true) Al Jazeera is likely to get it right in the first place. |
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They are biased, but so is all media. I heard once that when you've found an unbiased media source, you've found your own bias...and I think that holds true.
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