Moonhead
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ORIGINAL: Smutmonger Omg,we can't hear the twisted bias from El Jazeera" any more-what a huge loss! Only losing FOX would be a bigger blow! By Arab standards, Al Jazaree is a very liberal and evenhanded news network. There's a lot of Arab states that abhor it for that very reason. It arguably has rather less of a bias to it than Fox. As far as I can tell, most of the histrionic pissing and moaning about it from Americans is down to it broadcasting a few tapes of bin Laden and those beheading videos from 2005 in Fallujah. Tasteless, but more newsworthy on a local scale, than a bizarre strawman shitstorm about "Freedom Fries". I'd hardly lump a network that refers to Israel by name and uses European anchors for its western broadcasts in with the Iranian ministry of jihadist propaganda, most of what comes out of Syria or even the crap Saudi Arabia's news services regularly transmits. But then, once Israel is wiped off the map, Qatar is probably next on most of the middle east's list.
< Message edited by Moonhead -- 4/21/2010 7:53:20 AM >
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