Anyone who has visited the US will know that the TV news there is a total wasteland. Forget about any international news [even on CNN - still Chicken Noodles News as it was known when it started out?] save when there is some really critical event "on" somewhere around the globe.
It is therefore interesting to read an assessment, on AlterNet, of Al Jazeera International by an American. Bear in mind AJI is not available in the US or Canada:
"In both style and substance, it has a British feel. Indeed, if you briefly clicked by Al Jazeera International on television, you might mistake it for the BBC, from its understated, clean graphics to the on-camera personnel speaking with English accents. It also has the BBC's more-global view of the news, stretching far afield for stories. In its first weekend, for instance, the channel trumpeted the fact that its reporters got into Burma (Myanmar), a country that foreign reporters are rarely allowed to enter."
It is therefore interesting to read an assessment, on AlterNet, of Al Jazeera International by an American. Bear in mind AJI is not available in the US or Canada:
"In both style and substance, it has a British feel. Indeed, if you briefly clicked by Al Jazeera International on television, you might mistake it for the BBC, from its understated, clean graphics to the on-camera personnel speaking with English accents. It also has the BBC's more-global view of the news, stretching far afield for stories. In its first weekend, for instance, the channel trumpeted the fact that its reporters got into Burma (Myanmar), a country that foreign reporters are rarely allowed to enter."
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