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I noticed a good amount of people talking about Al Jazeera in the BBC paywall thread and that make me ask, why!?

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In my life experience the only way to test the reliability of a news source is to actually live some events and see how they are reported by different media.

I have no such experience with al Jazeera, so I couldn't tell you reliably if they are or not reliable. Best advice with media is, unless you are certain they are reliable, treat them as unreliable.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

reporting from "outside looking in" perspective, rather the us/bbc which only does it in the inside looking in.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not American. bbc is also a external news source for me.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm not even from an english speaking country. Virtually all media I read online is foreign to me. Remember you can still buy printed magazines and publications, but these are in your native culture.