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Even though the reporting can be very biased, Al Jazeera was one of the only news channels we watched in the military, along with BBC. I wish we had similar news agencies in the USA that show actual world news, and aren't just attractive people sitting around a table, gossiping about Democrats/Republicans.

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The closest I've found is a local public television station that has a block of PBS Newshour, Newsline, DW News, BBC World News, and France 24. It'd be nice if they had Al Jazeera, or even a few more broadcasts from other parts of the world, but I imagine English language broadcasts are rare in certain places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dsWF2prkR8 is a thing. TIL.

further thoughts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23858477

> "If you agree with it, it's truth. If you don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports."

Thanks!

Watching live news with a youtube chat next to it is quite an interesting experience.

NHK World is also a good option to watch if you get the chance

Seconded. It's very biased on mideast politics and especially Palestine/Israeli stuff, but in general they do a really great job of covering the global south and non-OECD countries. A slow news day in the US is generally not a slow news day globally.

The global weather is super intriguing. The resolution is so low that I can't figure out for whom it is useful, e.g., "It's raining in sub-Saharan Africa"

Our it could be that it really doesn't fit your views on mideast politics. Western media is totally silent on many issue directly caused by western powers in the region.

They push the Qatari line pretty hard but honestly they are a very good news organization

We tried, nobody watched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_America

I suppose I was in the minority watching it. I could see even then that al jazeera (uk) was superior to al jazeera (us) in both content and slant.

Seconded. Bias, when predictable and understood is not even a bad thing.

It is a window into the culture of the source -- and often the only one accessible to us.

This is not to say that journalists should not strive to report without bias, they should do so, but rather that unbiased coverage is an ideal never rightly claimed as fully achieved.

It's by far less biased than any western media company.

But more biased when it comes to Qatar and their Gulf's adversaries?

Just an example: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/06/qatar-gul...

Western media are certainly no strangers to bias. The difference is that no matter where you are in the political spectrum you can find media sympathetic to your belief.

Why do you watch the BBC? Maybe it is better if you are not in the UK, but it is heavily biased towards the Westminster government, and does not give a fair picture of and to Welsh, Scottish, and (Northern) Irish concerns.

I agree that it is less bad than Fox and other Murdoch media.

They still have far fewer dogs in the race for an American consumer. I can imagine that to a lot of those folks, goings-on in the British government aren't that important or interesting and so the bias doesn't really affect anything.

I find the BBC to be amazing for everything but UK politics

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