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29 May 2005, 01:29 AM | #1 |
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**Aljazeera News TV **
I'm an arabic citizen
I wanna how you see this tv station, what are its advantages and its drawbacks? As an arabic it's really important to me to know, u c ? |
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And of course any response will be careful not to break the forum rule which prohibits political discussion.
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It does provide a different perspective, but I do think it presents a hidden form of bias. I mean look at what JeffK said - obviously it's not the regular discussion.
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29 May 2005, 06:05 AM | #5 |
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I'm not being political in the opinion I'm about to make, as I discriminate against all news agencies equally, no matter the country of origin: I personally see it as mostly propaganda, making easy targets of weak minds all over the world.
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29 May 2005, 06:14 AM | #6 |
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Mehdi, welcome to the forum!
To determine whether this topic belongs here and to get an answer, you will need to specify what do you exactly mean "advantages/drawbacks". If it has any political connotations, it can not be discussed on this forum |
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The problem we have is that breaking news is fed to the most sympathetic mouthpiece, because we tend to mistrust the media. So it's a problem that perpetuates itself. AJ will have to work really hard to present a "balanced" view if what they come across easily are things Americans wish not to see. But American papers shrink from showing flag-covered American caskets and that's slanting the news too.
News from a variety of sources seems a reasonable antidote to a weak mind, but sometimes we have direct conflicts of facts to deal with. What's a reader to do? |
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To answer the original question and try to stay within the rules of the forum, I will say at times it appears spitefully slanted and at other times fearfully accurate. What I see of AJ is pre-filtered for me by other media outlets, by the way.
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I personally see it as mostly propaganda, making easy targets of weak minds all over the world I agree with you also, and think that we have to read many news sources (offering different viewpoints) However, at the end of the day, we need to mull the aruguments over, bearing in mind what I quoted above. And to form our own opinions, based on the real facts, and our own knowledge. We need to keep in mind (as well) that even the people who teach us (in our schools and universities) often themselves have an hidden agenda (I am talking of all countries here) We only get a real handle on the truth, after we have lived in these countries (not as tourists) People are much the same (wherever you go) worldwide; most desire only to live in peace. |
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Do we really have to get our news from somewhere lest we look at the universe with the eyes of oxen? I would say not necessarily, if you view only news agencies as valid sources of information. I don't see news agencies as great purveyors of worldview and information, nor do I see them as the means to intelligence. There is far more to do with a life than sit and absorb what's shoveled out of a tube, and more knowledge to be obtained than what one finds while staining one's fingers with the black ink of a newspaper. Then we get into issues of viewpoints as opposed to facts. If any news agency expresses the view of the average person on the street as opposed to spoonfeeding their own viewpoint or that of their respective parent state in the name of entertainment or whatever else you may imagine, I haven't run across one yet. The view of the average person on the street is not what I would consider news or a means to enlightenment anyway. Not meaning to be gruff, but I guess I just look at things differently. I tend to keep in mind these agencies are concerned with ratings and what people want to see more than honest journalism. If mankind could have millenia of civilization without the help of CNN, AJ, etc, and did so in an intelligent way, I'm sure we wouldn't hurt much if we had to go without them again. Last edited by gdg : 29 May 2005 at 02:03 PM. |
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I don't see much TV news directly. I get most of my news from internet news sights and their sources include newspapers and tv news stations. Some are more biased than others. Some see the bias as part of what they do and don't see anything wrong with it. I think, from what I've seen of Al Jazeera, it's not so much that it's biased as that it's coming at things from such a different point of view from most westerners, and basing it's reportage on a different, but not necessarily less - or more - true, set of assumptions from western journalism that we're quick to say it's biased. I think most of reporting, except for reporting by the rare truly internationalist journalist, is biased in thet sense that it reflects a worldview which is not always shared by the entire world.
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