In Chiang Rai there are 2 English stations on the flat screen TV in my room - BBC and Aljazeera.
With the recent massacres of inocents in Sydney and Pakistan, I am favorably impressed by the objective, unbiased reporting on Aljazeera The cynic in me says Algazeera might be less objective when broadcast in Farsi or Arabic.
Aljazeera showed almost the entire speech made yesterday of Secty. of State John Kerry in London. Then there were numerous interviews with the heads of state - from Australia, Pakistan, the UK - covering the barbaric nature of the attacks. On what U.S. TV station would you see more than soundbites of Secty. Kerry?
Much of the coverage on both Aljazeera and BBC for the last 48 hours has been covering these two events, but there is also news about Russia's financial crisis, Jeb Bush's aspirations, Syria and ISIS, Palestine, the CIA and torture, and of course, football, as in soccer.
It was my perception that Algazeera was a pro Islamic spin machine, fomenting hatred of westerners and supporting Islamic beliefs. I was wrong. There are women on the anchor desks, in western clothing, speaking fluent English, along with male anchors.
Aljazeera.com
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