Al Jazeera & Project Censored

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    I've been following the Fox news thread below. It's interesting to get everyone's perspective on Fox, MSNBC, etc. I like to get my news from a variety of sources, what I'm finding hard is to get news with out some sort of left or right slant to it. Oddly enough a few years back I was trying to see some so Bin Laden video or beheading, I can't remember what it was, when I stumbled onto Al Jazeera. I thought it would be good for a laugh to see how much the Middle East hated America and what their spin on things would be.

    Surprisingly they're not a bad news organization. They're pretty "fair and balanced" in what they present. It's also interesting to see what they feel are important news stories about the USA vs what we're feed in our daily news cycle. I'm not saying they're any better than the news providers we have here in the USA but it is a legitimate news provider.

    It's bookmark worthy and you might want to check it out every couple of days.

    http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/

    Project Censored has released their list of the top 25 non or under reported news stories of the year. I look forward to reading it every year. I haven't seen it mentioned on here and it's always worth checking out.

    Here's this years top 25 -

    http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/two-thousand-and-ten-book/

    For those of you who don't know what Project Censored is -
     
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    This is a legit question from me to those more into the political sphere...should I know who those judges are? I've only ever heard of Chomsky and Wallace, and couldn't tell you much about either, aside from Wallace does/used to do 60 Minutes (a show my grandmother watches, and I don't)
     
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    My dad watches Al-Jazeera all the time and Im pretty sure he's not a terrorist :drumroll:
     
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    Do you guys have satellite? I'm pretty sure I can't get it on Comcast (back when I used to have a few of the foreign language channels)
     
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    Project censored is a great resource. There's a lot of stories about the bail outs ranked on there.
     
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    I've never seen the Al-Jazeera TV news network but I was surprised that the website isn't a USA hating/pro Muslim propaganda site.
     
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    I know that "The most trusted man in America" used to think highly of it.

     
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    But you aren't 100% sure, are you? If I were you I'd turn him in. If it turns out he's not a terrorist, they'll let him out of Gitmo or Bagram in a few years.

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    My dad has whipping scars on his back from when he was tortured by the Ba'ath party in Iraq for protesting them 40 years ago.........I had this turned into a joke in my head but I just cant do it even if its obvious I dont really mean it....

    Its amazing the crap my dad has been through in his life only to become a self made millionaire, working for himself, living in a great ocean view house with my mom...Definition of the American Dream
     
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    For real? Nice. That actually sounds like a pretty tight life story.

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