(Salon) Al Jazeera's Egypt coverage embarrasses U.S. cable news channels

[kpete]

Media Criticism
Friday, Jan 28, 2011 11:30 ET
Al Jazeera's Egypt coverage embarrasses U.S. cable news channels

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All three of the major U.S. cable news networks are prefacing breaking news on their chyrons with the words "Al-Jazeera reports." Al Jazeera was criticized for being reluctant to cover the Egyptian protests as zealously as it covered Tunisia -- and I can't speak to that, because I obviously can't watch the Arab-language version of the channel -- but its English-language network is, today, mandatory viewing for anyone interested in the world-changing events currently happening in Egypt.

The American networks (SUCK) barely qualify as an interesting supplement.

MORE:
http://www.salon.com/news/media_criticism/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/01/28/cable_news_egypt
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http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

[xchrom]

1. the coverage and reporting is amazing. nt

[gateley]

2. K&R! Again, our "news" is sorely lacking. nt

[DCKit]

3. AJ is often a better source for U.S. news, as well.

They don't spend an extra second putting the corporate/RW spin on their reports and, because of that, can report a far higher number of stories from around the world.

Remember how the U.S. MSM and BushCo* used to portray AJ as Islamist propaganda?

Well, you really can't blame 'em. It's been a long time since our news readers were exposed to journalism... some of the younger ones grew up without it.