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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 06:01 PM
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Poll question: Fox News :vs: AlJazeera
Edited on Tue Apr-06-04 06:05 PM by Feanorcurufinwe
Which do you consider a more credible source for news?
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Dufaeth Donating Member (764 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 06:01 PM
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1. I take both with
a boatload of salt.
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mot78 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 06:02 PM
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2. Both of them are equally biased
Al Jazeera has bias against us on a number of issues, and they act as objective as Faux.
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Jack_Dawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 06:07 PM
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3. One promotes violence, the other promotes lies
I'm not sure. Faux is probably the lesser of evils.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 08:10 PM
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10. Al-Jazeera does not promote violence, they just report the news
which are particularly violent, particularly when it involves the violence that Israel perpetrates on the Palestinians on a daily basis without a single mention by the US media.
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Aidoneus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 06:09 PM
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4. al-Jazeera is an excellent news source
Fox couldn't properly report on the colour of shit.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 06:36 PM
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5. Fox is a bad comedy. AlJazeera is Jidhadist filth. The poll results are
shameful. :puke:
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JohnLocke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 06:47 PM
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6. They both suck...but Al-Jazeera sucks more.
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 06:55 PM
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7. Any evidence of Al-Jazeera promoting violence?
I've seen a number of posters here claim that Al-Jazeera promotes violence. Anyone actually have any evidence of that?
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 08:12 PM
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12. They are the posters that believe the RW crap of Jerusalem Post
and coincidentally, many of them also supported the invasion of Iraq.
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 07:55 PM
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8. I can specifically remember Fox News reporting: "WMDs found"

Bias is one thing, but that was blatantly false. Are there examples of AlJazeera doing this?
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 08:06 PM
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9. i`m trying to understand
why aljizzie is all that bad. of course they have a point of view but so does any press. you have to be intelligent enough understand the bias and deal with it.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 08:14 PM
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13. They hate Al-Jazeera because it shows Palestinians as human beings
GAWD forbid we allow the American people to see Palestinians as human beings whose rights have been violated, and Israel as anything other than a victim.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-07-04 03:58 AM
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16. Too bad it never shows Israelis the same way.
:puke:
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 08:25 PM
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14. Yes, all reporting, from any source, is biased.
Because humans can't escape their nature, reporters will always report from their point of view. That doesn't neccesarily mean that they present unsubstantiated rumors as fact or commit other journalistic errors such as those I've witnessed on Fox News.
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WillyBrandt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 08:11 PM
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11. Equal. Fox is the American al-Jazeera; both are beneath contempt.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 08:26 PM
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15. I find Al-Jazeera highly reliable
In fact, I depend upon it for accurate reports out of the Middle East. Most times when the U.S. media is running with the latest shark story, Al-Jazeera is printing the truth.
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Piperay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-07-04 04:19 AM
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17. Neither one
of them, they both have their own agenda.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-07-04 04:41 AM
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18. another vote
for neither...both make me sick
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