I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?

  • Eddyzh@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s not about being exactly more reliable than the other big ones. More about being a second perspective, filling in the gaps of the western ones.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, read a couple of sources and take the average.

      Always bear in mind who funds it.

      • cynar@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        Be careful with the taking average mindset. It’s a default human one, and it’s being abused. A lot of media outlets (particularly American right wing) are mouthpieces for the same few groups or people.

        Instead, try and look at their biases. Do they have a reason to mislead you. What akin do they have in a particular game. E.g. the BBC is still fairly unbiased on a lot of world news. They are far less unbiased on middle eastern politics now.

        It’s an annoyingly complex problem to solve, on the fly.

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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          3 hours ago

          E.g. the BBC is still fairly unbiased on a lot of world news.

          No? Why do you think this?

          They are far less unbiased on middle eastern politics now.

          Have you considered that you may have only noticed that they’re aren’t unbiased on the middle east.

        • dbtng@eviltoast.org
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          18 hours ago

          Ya. A nuanced media net is the only real answer. Trying to balance one liar against another rarely results in balance.