>I have watched a lot of the English version of Al Jazeera and their printed news as well. I will agree that they do seem fairly independent, but their stories are almost always slanted.

I started watching them recently (english of course) when I switched cable supplier. To me they look/sound refreshingly clear/convincing comparing to those convoluted/obfuscated news bot(s) we all know and don't like :)

They pleasently reminded me of some old times, long gonne for world journalism when news were something worthed to to watch, read or listen. Right now, my perception of world news is pretty simillar to noise of hoover sucking inn house dust, with only diff that with news;
Dust is going in wrong direction. <vbg>

I don't know why you think they are slanted. Who can really tell?
Does anybody ever goes after news reporters rechecking real facts?
All you can base yourself uppon, is that unexplainable feeling
that someone is more trustwordy then the others so you just believe them more. Then again if you have conglomerate of world new reporting that sky is bright orange, who ever tells you otherwise might sound really like a weirdoe :)

I usually browse back/fourth between channels and then most of the
times end up watching exactly Al-Jazeera Intl.




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>>>Of course if she actually appeared like that on Arab Al Jazeera she'd be stoned to death as a harlot or beaten to death by the canes of the mutaween
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>>It seem you never watched Al Jazeera. It's really an independent channel. Their woman reporters like her usually...
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
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>>"In March 2003, Al Jazeera was awarded by Index on Censorship for its "courage in circumventing censorship and contributing to the free exchange of information in the Arab world."