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

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    As we quickly learned during the George W Bush era, no news media agency can be trusted. To counter this, check reporting of the same incident from multiple news agencies and find the consistent facts. Everything else is suspect.

    In a hurry, see if Reuters or AP has covered it, but verify when you have the time.

    Done this way AJ is perfectly viable as a source for news, in that the bias can be filtered out.

    FOX and OANN are known to lie or misrepresent facts entirely, but that gets filtered through cross-checking.

    Trust, but verify.