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Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iraq: The controversy is that some government attacked Al Jazeera for its reporting and/or took away their press credentials or ability to operate. It's noted that it's banned from operating in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and the UAE.

Australia, Bangladesh: Can't completely make head or tail of what happened but it sounds like government people getting mad at Al Jazeera for their reporting, not some disinterested party saying that some reporting Al Jazeera was doing wasn't true

Israel: I found, for the first time, some pretty credible allegations of them doing something wrong, including among other things one story from February 2015 that actually seemed like something they reported wasn't true.


At that point I stopped reading the list. But I had to go 8 countries down before I found something where it actually sounded to me like they definitely did something wrong, and 9 years back before I found one story they reported that was actually completely untrue (as opposed to just a bias you have to keep in mind when reading).

Question. If an Israeli or American paper:

  • Celebrated the release of someone who had killed a bunch of Arabs
  • Published a story about Arab atrocities that turned out not to be true
  • Published only one side of the story about an armed conflict, where really both sides needed to be presented

Would that mean it's a joke and anyone who reads it is ignorant? 'Cause they do that shit all the time. I don't think so; I think they can still be a good paper, you just have to keep in mind the bias that they have.

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