After watching numerous programs & reading many of the articles posted on the website it seems to me that the majority of the programs are high quality, for example this video on US Medevac helicopters.
Now, I have seen some anti-West bias creeping in to some of their material, with the occasional misrepresentation or opinion stated as fact; but it was far less often than what we get here already with Fox News.
Al Jazeera is like a combination of 90% BBC(with better scoop on Arab countries) + 10% anti-West Fox News. Most programs are high quality and remind me of BBC quality, while a few are hosted by people who apparently think the West is to blame for most of the problems in Arab countries and don't mind misrepresenting a few facts to enforce their viewpoint.
Broadcast television news is often used to reinforce brainwashed ideals held by the old, ignorant, and just plain stupid, since they are pretty much the only people actually watching broadcast television. For this reason I don't much care if Al Jazeera is available on cable or not, since any intelligent person can just watch on it on the internet, a vastly superior medium.
But really if filth like Fox News can get rights to broadcast I can't see any reason to deny Al Jazeera, perhaps they can cancel each others misrepresentations out. I've yet to see a news channel that can be truly relied upon to be objective.
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