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Al Jazeera is an excellent news source on Middle Eastern affairs, also its telling how you shifted the conversation to the source (this story has been confirmed

Al Jazeera is an excellent news source on Middle Eastern affairs, also its telling how you shifted the conversation to the source (this story has been confirmed by the AP and other sources as well) when your false claim about he IDF was proven wrong. The IDF are war criminals, worse than the Russians

hn_go_brrrrr 5y ago
Is it telling? Let's say a true story were reported in a paper you think is garbage but also in a reputable one. Someone posts a link to the garbage one. Wouldn't you tell them to avoid the garbage site? I think you and GP disagree on whether Al Jazeera is trustworthy or garbage, but I don't see the problem you seem to be implying exists.
- vxNsr 5y ago
  Google curates your search results based on your past behavior. If you’re constantly looking to biased, false reporting for news, that’s what you’ll get in the future, everyone downvoting me for saying AJ is biased doesn’t like to look in the mirror. They all think “the other side is the one that reads fake news, all my news sources are impeccable.” No, you’re just in your own echo chamber that you’ve got telling you the exact things you want to hear. Sharing a story from AJ on Israel is like using RT for the state of Ukraine’s nazi agenda. You’re gonna get a very false picture of reality.
pasabagi 5y ago
I think calling them 'excellent' is taking it a bit far. I'd view Al Jazeera as structurally similar to many other 'regime broadcasters', for example, the BBC. However, the regime they are broadcasting for is the Qatari dictatorship, which is marginally more liberal than the Saudi dictarship[0]. So there's actually a pretty big difference there: it's representing a state (in the broad sense), and unless you have some really biblical political opinions, it's not a state you have much in common with. Aside from the usual depravities (stoning, slavery, etc), the taliban were headquartered in Doha in recent years. I also occasionally read AJ for a sort of 'third opinion', but I think the people they represent are some of the worst in the world. It's marginally more reliable than RT, and then only because Qatar is more of an ambiguous global player. It's worth always remembering that AJ is the english language, liberal-compatible face of a regime that murders gay people, imprisons women, and flogs people for adultery. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar

hn_go_brrrrr 5y ago

Is it telling? Let's say a true story were reported in a paper you think is garbage but also in a reputable one. Someone posts a link to the garbage one. Wouldn't you tell them to avoid the garbage site? I think you and GP disagree on whether Al Jazeera is trustworthy or garbage, but I don't see the problem you seem to be implying exists.

vxNsr 5y ago
Google curates your search results based on your past behavior. If you’re constantly looking to biased, false reporting for news, that’s what you’ll get in the future, everyone downvoting me for saying AJ is biased doesn’t like to look in the mirror. They all think “the other side is the one that reads fake news, all my news sources are impeccable.” No, you’re just in your own echo chamber that you’ve got telling you the exact things you want to hear. Sharing a story from AJ on Israel is like using RT for the state of Ukraine’s nazi agenda. You’re gonna get a very false picture of reality.

pasabagi 5y ago

I think calling them 'excellent' is taking it a bit far. I'd view Al Jazeera as structurally similar to many other 'regime broadcasters', for example, the BBC. However, the regime they are broadcasting for is the Qatari dictatorship, which is marginally more liberal than the Saudi dictarship[0]. So there's actually a pretty big difference there: it's representing a state (in the broad sense), and unless you have some really biblical political opinions, it's not a state you have much in common with. Aside from the usual depravities (stoning, slavery, etc), the taliban were headquartered in Doha in recent years. I also occasionally read AJ for a sort of 'third opinion', but I think the people they represent are some of the worst in the world. It's marginally more reliable than RT, and then only because Qatar is more of an ambiguous global player. It's worth always remembering that AJ is the english language, liberal-compatible face of a regime that murders gay people, imprisons women, and flogs people for adultery. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar