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Personally, Al Jazeera English has been a valuable source of counter propaganda to the hegemonic western media companies I usually end up getting my news from (
by MrPandaRabbit 6y ago
Personally, Al Jazeera English has been a valuable source of counter propaganda to the hegemonic western media companies I usually end up getting my news from (NYT, Guardian, Atlantic, etc. on the liberal end and WaPo, BBC, etc. on the more neutral/conservative end).
I think it’s fair to say they are more directly aligned with Qatar and don’t do as good a job criticizing their owners as John Oliver with ATT. But, I cannot find anyone, not even BBC, that does as good a job at covering grassroots organization efforts and local stories from South America, Africa, the middle-east (particularly Palestinian stories), South Asia, and parts of East Asia.
It has been refreshing to see humanizing perspectives of people who are usually cast as ‘the other’ or ‘backwards’ implicitly or explicitly in western media.
I wonder if Australian, European, or Israeli news/media companies ever have to register as foreign agents.
- xster 6y agomintpressnews.com and thegrayzone.com do decent primary-sourceable journalism on the global south I find.
- MrPandaRabbit 6y agoThanks, will definitely try them out. I find The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, ProPublica, and maybe controversially, The Intercept do good primary source journalism in the US.
- xster 6y agoProPublica is definitely in my bookmarks too. Things like The Intercept and Project Syndicate are so hit or miss depending on the author. The Intercept was so solid when it just started. Then gradually you start seeing Greenwald start arguing with all the other corporate journalists from WaPo and NYT they're hiring en masse on Twitter...
- bpodgursky 6y agoIf you think the Atlantic is on the "liberal end" and the WaPo is on the "neutral/conservative" end of the news spectrum, I think you have a fuzzy understanding of the political divides in US news sources.
- MrPandaRabbit 6y agoTrue, perhaps I am wrong in my classification. Maybe not fair to say WaPo is conservative. And The Atlantic does give space to neo-liberal ideas. It’s very biased by how and which stories have stuck in my mind from these sources.
- kingwill101 6y agoSo true, most western media are tainted with bias towards propoganda of western governments. Aljazeera is the first station I've seen that has really shed a light on what happens in the middle East
- newfriend 6y ago> WaPo, BBC, etc. on the more neutral/conservative end) Sorry but no, WaPo is absolutely not on the neutral/conservative end. I suppose some argument could be made for BBC being more neutral. I would put WaPo on the liberal end, and WSJ on the neutral/conservative end.