al-Jazeera is ****ing awesome!

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Spec


I am not comparing it to Fox News. You are picking the worst of the worst. Please...

Everywhere in journalism, you always have a percentage of lies and propaganda. May it be 5% or 95%.

Journalism is journalism.

Fox news, is not journalism.

Fox news up.

Spec.

QFT

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Spec


I am not comparing it to Fox News. You are picking the worst of the worst. Please...

Everywhere in journalism, you always have a percentage of lies and propaganda. May it be 5% or 95%.

Journalism is journalism.

Fox news, is not journalism.

Fox news up.

Spec.

QFT

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Zoid
To prove my point: I just watched a 5 minute piece on Venezuela! In Sweden it would've been a 30 second clip showing the "public uprising against the evil tyrant" And a 3 minute interview with our Foreign Minister saying Chavez is a problem and must be dealt with...

When I want pro-Chavez news, I just listen to National Public Radio Theyre usually good for anti-Israel stuff too, though they DO lean more to the Fatah side than to Hamas, and they occasionally are sympathetic to left leaning Israelis. Well, I guess you cant have everything in one source, now can you?

[Drake Tungsten]

Fox news, is not journalism.

Yes, it is. The actual news coverage on Fox is generally excellent; it's the more opinion-based shows that demonstrate its bias. Of course, I could say the same about any number of other news networks...

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Fox news, is not journalism.

Yes, it is. The actual news coverage on Fox is generally excellent; it's the more opinion-based shows that demonstrate its bias. Of course, I could say the same about any number of other news networks...

Would you consider news blogs to qualify as journalism?

[Drake Tungsten]

You're going to have to be more specific. "News blogs" could mean anything...

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Fox news, is not journalism.

Yes, it is. The actual news coverage on Fox is generally excellent; it's the more opinion-based shows that demonstrate its bias. Of course, I could say the same about any number of other news networks...

Meh, FOX News is about as thruthworthy as ISN under President Clark...

[Dinner]

Re: al-Jazeera is ****ing awesome!

Originally posted by Zoid
I've only had the english version of channel for a few days, but I'm impressed. Impressed by the level of quality, the topics covered and byt he fact that there actually is a dissenting voice in this whole quagmire of Washington-directed crap that passes as "news".

My understanding is the English version is very toned down compared to the Arabic version which is stridently anti-Western especially anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-UK. There is supposedly a great deal of death to the infidels type speech on their talk shows where people call in to the show or where the audience comments.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Fox news, is not journalism.

Yes, it is. The actual news coverage on Fox is generally excellent; it's the more opinion-based shows that demonstrate its bias. Of course, I could say the same about any number of other news networks...

We've been over this a million times and it has been studied to death. The conclusion made by just about every ojective viewer is that Fox routinely mixes its editorial and news content without telling viewers plus it deliberately attempts to mislead people continuing to claim Saddam was in on 9/11 until just 12-18 months ago.

It isn't news. It is garbage.

[Chemical Ollie]

Re: Re: al-Jazeera is ****ing awesome!

Originally posted by Oerdin
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There is supposedly a great deal of death to the infidels type speech on their talk shows where people call in to the show or where the audience comments.

Jerry Springer in Arabic?

[Drake Tungsten]

It isn't news. It is garbage.

The king of truthiness has spoken. I rest my case.

[Dinner]

Drake, you were one of the lead whiners when I would start threads which would show case Fox News' deliberate misrepresentations and half truths. So you don't get to whine now about not knowing about them since you were one of the lead whiners claiming to not caring if they were trust worthy or not.

You can't have it both ways. Either you care or you don't and if you do care then I get to go back making daily to weekly threads about all the garbage and spin Fox News produces. It seems the lies about Fox News can only spread when people don't squash them like cockroaches. Maybe I should go back to making threads exposing the lies.

[Dinner]

Re: Re: Re: al-Jazeera is ****ing awesome!

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie


Jerry Springer in Arabic?

Yes, only much more vitriole and full of hate if the reports are to be believed. Also they attempt to pass it as actual informative programing.

[Zoid]

Exposing teh lies!

[Drake Tungsten]

Drake, you were one of the lead whiners when I would start threads which would show case Fox News' deliberate misrepresentations and half truths.

I don't remember that.

Either you care or you don't and if you do care then I get to go back making daily to weekly threads about all the garbage and spin Fox News produces.

Go ahead. Replacing your mindless Republican-bashing threads with mindless Fox News-bashing threads isn't going to bother me. I don't read your threads for anything other than comic value anyway...