Hillary Clinton Says Al Jazeera Is Putting American Media To Shame

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  1. windparadox

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    Hillary has a point. Lately, when it comes to Middle East news, Al-Jazeera, the BBC and NPR/PBS are my sources of choice. All tend to have 1st person coverage of aspects that the Western Press is totally ignoring.

    The US media, in particular, is so concerned about ratings over factual content, one just cannot get a real world picture of international events from them. In Egypt, for example, all I heard in the US was about the violence but there was so much more going on that it rendered their reports as useless.

    Granted, all media contains some kind of bias and slant. However, news is like philosophy in a way. To understand the classics like Plato and Aristotle, I had to learn how read their dialectics. In the same fashion, one needs to learn how to view news with a hunger for facts as opposed to mere titillation by filtering out those aspects of reporting that show a cultural or ideological predilection.

    Online is getting bad too. The proliferation of sites merely commenting about the news (Huffington, Daily Caller, Alternet, WND, etc) are actually making matters worse. I want news...not someones opinion on what that news means.

    Perhaps I'm a dying breed in my relative youth. I was brought up by an aunt who valued education and the ability to think independently and critically. Hillary is spot on...we need more emphasis on real world facts and less on cultural populism.
     
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    Al-Jazeera spies for Hamas...
    :fart:
    Al Jazeera Journalist Admits To Being Hamas Operative
    09/27/2011 : During Shin Bet interrogation, former Afghanistan bureau chief Samer Allawi says he traveled to Syria to help terror group.
     
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    not a bad news source
     
  4. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They sure deserve credit for covering this story:




    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middl...mic-state-death-threats-2014719848721494.html



     
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    I live in France and consider Al Jazeera / English one of the best news sources available.
     
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    True. Our press though is put to shame by most international news organizations. Once news became a profit center, news became a product not a duty or responsibility.
     
  8. Gatewood

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    Well you gotta remember that the MSM built Hillary up as the Dem Party heir apparent for the Oval Office during all of 2007 and the beginning of 2008, convincing her and Bill that they were in Hillary's corner all the way and then the moment Barack Obama managed to fumble through a couple of primaries debates (looking very bad during the process) the same MSM and the same journalists and pundits switched their support over to a fad candidate first term U.S. senator with zero meaningful national level experience. So she's under absolutely no illusion about the nature of this nation's 'free' press.
     
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    Excellent points Gatewood!

    Gatewood......… I have read some astonishingly insightful comments by you in other discussions...… I have a question for you...… am I extremely naïve to so strongly suspect that the election of President Barack Obama may have had something to do with the capabilities and the courage and the understanding that President Obama's half-brother has?


    http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...obama-one-worlds-most-courageous-muslims.html


    Is Malik Obama one of the worlds' most courageous Muslims?



    In my opinion.....YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!






    Obama’s Brother in Support of Third Temple Built in Jerusalem

    endtimeheadlines.org/temple-mount/obamas-brother-in-support-of-third-temple-built-in-jerusalem/
     
  10. DennisTate

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    There are some benefits to news TV stations having at least something of a bias though. I used to watch Sun News Media a fair amount partly because they approached topics from an angle that was not so politically correct........... but....... that angle sometimes does need to be explored as well...… I will try to give you an example of this in a few moments.......

    I am Facebook friends and speak by phone rather often with the obviously brilliant Robert Mendelson, author of....


    http://www.godspeaceplan.blogspot.ca/2014/07/gods-peace-plan-for-holy-land-peace.html

    … I got his permission and turned his booklet into a blog so that more people will read it and I began some discussions on the plan here:

    http://www.politicalforum.com/political-opinions-beliefs/322565-gods-peace-plan-holy-land.html

    God's Peace Plan for the Holy Land

    .....
    Robert gets really annoyed with me for also promoting what was shown to near death experiencer Dannion Brinkley regarding a peace deal between Jordan and Israel...…



    Robert is at least partly right.... but I will let you think on this before I explain why.
     
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    I also sent Robert the second part of what was shown to Dannion....... which I copied and pasted to post #12....... page 2.... of this discussion over in the Religion and Spirituality forum:

    This will help you to understand why Robert gets annoyed with me for thinking that what was shown to Dannion Brinkley fits perfectly with what he was shown back in 1993.

    http://www.politicalforum.com/relig...s-p-m-brokering-jordan-israel-peace-deal.html

    Please pray or meditate on Canada's P. M. brokering Jordan - Israel peace deal?

    ..........
     
  12. Gatewood

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    In truth part of Barack Obama's political rise was a deliberate plan by his many different mentors -- who almost certainly worked together to guide him and ram doors open for him -- but then again a good part of what happened after he became a U.S. Senator consisted of political opportunists sensing an opening and going for it. I suspect that had his handlers not decided that 2008 was going to be Barack's first attempt at winning the presidency then he would have been content to simply continue being a senator for the next four to eight years. As for his family, I suspect that Barack has had very little to do with any family members who were fortune-challenged; meaning that they might have needed his help. With Barack I think that's always supposed to flow in one direction only; from others to Barack. He's not considered to be an arrogant narcissist for nothing.
     
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    Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I have some friends who I can't quite resist sending this to....... because they will certainly enjoy your response Gatewood!
     
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    Goes to show 9/11 - if you take the time to listen to what she had/has to say - you may just understand why so many of us stand behind her all the way :)
     
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    Interesting post but I don't put much store in near death experiences. Jordan may indeed no longer be a kingdom as well as many of the other new post WW1 states including Israel. That part of the world will be a mess as long as three religions claim it as holy land.
     
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    Thank you Woolley!

    On that note I think it is time to post the full content of what Dannion Brinkley was shown and you will soon see why Robert Mendelson.....author of "The Way of Holiness and the Sacred Hoop" as well as "God's Peace Plan for the Holy Land" gets so offended at me for thinking that the Dannion Brinkley NDE has off the scale artistic value as well as diplomatic value and can play a significant role in convincing somebody......… that a peace deal between Jordan and Israel is a real possibility.


    This is a win - win - win scenario for everybody because this could prevent the Arab Spring Movement from destroying the nation of Jordan..........This could make life much more peaceful for all Palestinians who are not determined to become suicide bombers......or turn their children into suicide bombers......and the benefits for Jewish Israelis and everybody interested in preventing nuclear WWIII are obvious!
     
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    Al Jazeera news beats any news available in the US (with the possible exception of NPR).
     
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    I guess that means their coverage meets the standards of hard to please Socialists.
     
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    There will never be a real negotiated peace treaty to settle the Palestinian/Israeli stalemate.
     
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    Yes...
     
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    :flagus:

    EDIT: Now that I think of it, there may be something to the notion that AJZ rivals US MSM news.

    Recently we've seen stories which should have been printed, posted, broadcast or disseminated in some way by US news outlets.

    Instead it was the British papers which have gotten the scoops.

    But to the point, the enemies and opponents of the US (and/or our government or form of government or religion or what have you) need accurate info. They can't afford to view the USA incorrectly.

    Makes sense.
     
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    Al Jazeera is a liberal leftwing channel.
     
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    So isanything not owned or controlled by a greedy idiot GOP billionaire lol.

    AJ has 77 offices around the world, while CBS etc have less than 10. We should have a hour world news by the big 3, much more invested, and less obsession with controversy, ratings- see JOURNALISM and not being afraid of bs RW loudmouths...
     
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    She is absolutely right about this!

    https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/336398-is-slave-horrors-crime/

    ISIS sex slave survivor: They beat me, raped me, treated me like an animal


    http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...ans-allowed-go-free-but-no-mercy-yazidis.html

    Christians allowed to go free... but no mercy on Yazidis.
    I have some theories on why many Christians were
    allowed to go free.......
    but no mercy at all was shown to Yazidis.
     
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