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This may sound cynical, but people like to hear a point of view they agree with. By being less partisan Al Jazeera is pissing 100% of the people off some of th
by pmorici 16y ago
This may sound cynical, but people like to hear a point of view they agree with. By being less partisan Al Jazeera is pissing 100% of the people off some of the time.
- arethuza 16y agoI don't think it's cynical at all - you see the same thing in the tech world when people try and do an objective comparison of two competing technologies, the comments that get the most hate are the ones trying to take a balanced view.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoI don't think Al Jazeera is less partisan, they just have partisan biases that don't align with anyone in the west. One thing I observed while watching them - they have a very distinct pro-Arab bias. It's readily apparent if you watch their reporting on the occupation of Kurdistan and the occupation of Palestine (Arabs are the victim, whether they are the occupier or the occupied). That's partisan, but very few Americans have much of an opinion on it. The small minority with an opinion are pro-Israel and think Kurdistan is in Russia.
- _delirium 16y agoI do think they have a general pro-Arab bias, but that's sort of what I'd expect, and it's not particularly egregious I don't think. It's pro-Arab sort of in the way that most French media is pro-French, most Greek papers are pro-Greek, etc., and on the more moderate side of that spectrum--- it's not the Arab version of Jean-Marie Le Pen or anything.
- noibl 16y agoI wish people would stop downvoting comments because they don't agree with them. This contributes. I want to see things like this and the sibling comments to mine, even if they're wrong. Stop breaking the conversation with mindless downvotes. Thank you.
- presidentender 16y agoThere's an even smaller minority of us who know where Kurdistan is, think Israel is usually bad juju, and recognize that 'Muslims' are not a single entity.
- RK 16y agothey have a very distinct pro-Arab bias. It's readily apparent if you watch their reporting on the occupation of Kurdistan Since the Kurds are not Arabs, I'm assuming the bias is against the Kurds?
- hasenj 16y agoThey don't endorse the Kurdish nationalistic sentiment, but that doesn't make them biased against the Kurds. For instance, they don't portray Kurds as bad guys. You are right though, they are partisan. They're biased towards the Palestinian cause, for example. But they still give all sides a chance to voice their views.