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.