(For me) great ON THE GROUND reporting. Wheres the catch? Its my go-to world channel.

Russia today is also good,Sputnik with George Galloway is a diferent slant on the media anmnd politics.

It’s “dumbed down” for western audiences

Russia today is also good,

Really!?! I know all news channels are biased but RT is just a joke.

Russia today is also good

Really? +1

[video]http://youtu.be/3WAoMXHILts[/video]

so good this is the second time you’ve started the same thread? last time was a year or two ago iirc. no, i have no idea why i remember this.

The Japanese Tsunami coverage was the first

Aljazeera English, Fox News of the middle east.

Russia today is also good,

Really!?! I know all news channels are biased but RT is just a joke.

Strange its getting a lot of viewers turning awaY from the other news media channels.

Not a viewer then.

Never watched bbc and thought how they bow down to the current government to keep their jobs and pensions intact

The BBC being biased, doesn’t mean RT isn’t.

Alkazeera is worth watching, it’s always good to get different perspectives.

Been impressed with some of Al Jazeera’s world business features, I’m sure as with all/most broadcasters there is bound to be bias shown. IMO bbc is more overt with its bias of late which was turned me off it wholesale.

Never watched bbc and thought how they bow down to the current government to keep their jobs and pensions intact

AFAIK the rest of the world (America in particular) regard the BBC as ridiculously left-wing biased.

Do Aljazeera portray cyclists as the spawn of satan or as bimbling, humorous characters randomly roaming our streets?

Do Aljazeera portray cyclists as the spawn of satan or as bimbling, humorous characters randomly roaming our streets?

Boris? No “or” needed if so.

We get aljazeria coverage of UK events sometimes here in Oz nice to see some independent reporting. In general fox/murdoch press sees every public broadcast as communist it’s hardly news.

AFAIK the rest of the world (America in particular) regard the BBC as ridiculously left-wing biased.

as do the current govt so it must be doing its job pretty well then.
I think its pretty impartial with a vaguely pro western UK agenda

I think its pretty impartial with a vaguely pro western UK agenda

Yeah ! what about the rest of the UK !

wait, are people saying that the BBC is just the British governments mouthpiece

yet holding up AlJazeera- funded by the Qatari royal family with its strong sunni bias
and wait for it Russia Today- Putins own private propoganda channel

are beacons of impartiality??

while it is interesting to view the world from a different perspective Im not sure that the concept of a free press means the same thing in Russia, Qatar and the UK

while it is interesting to view the world from a different perspective Im not sure that the concept of a free press means the same thing in Russia, Qatar and the UK

Quite.

yet holding up AlJazeera- funded by the Qatari royal family with its strong sunni bias
and wait for it Russia Today- Putins own private propoganda channel

are beacons of impartiality??

But a lot of people like me watch both channels to see what is actually happening in the uk and around the world, with out all the fluffy propoganda that could have been written by the tory party like the bbc produce, and then continually show repeatedly every 15 minutes, betwen stupid jokes about the weather, and their links to outside broadcasts failing.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-peoples-voice

So in summary half the people think the bbc is left leaning and the other half think it’s a tory government mouthpiece.

Balanced then

But a lot of people like me watch both channels to see what is actually happening in the uk and around the world, with out all the fluffy propoganda that could have been written by the tory party like the bbc produce, and then continually show repeatedly every 15 minutes, betwen stupid jokes about the weather, and their links to outside broadcasts failing.

Getting your news from RT is no way to avoid propaganda.

AFAIK the rest of the world (America in particular) regard the BBC as ridiculously left-wing biased.

Large swathes of the media is right-wing weighted. In the UK 7 out of 10 of the major papers have a rightwing editorial even if they don’t always have a largely rightwing readership (half of the Daily Mail’s readership are not rightwing voters). Similarly Sky’s new outlets aren’t tied by any charter that calls for fairness or impartiality. Against that weighting of rightwing press anything close to ‘balanced’ can only appear as a bias to the left. This is all the more stark in the US where Republicans view ‘facts’ and as liberal propaganda.